Friday, January 25, 2013

Beam me up scotty

Today from the palm of my hand I first made a phone call, then I sent a text message. Following that I used my phone to find the nearest walmart from where I was and with the touch of a finger listened to directions to get there. Then I went online and made a transfer of funds with my bank, but wait, that's not all; I found the doctors office address and again with the touch of a finger placed the call to make an appointment. I also wrote and posted a new blog page (its for my poetry and verse you can find it here on my blogspot profile, its called Somewhere in Yesterday) harvested my crops on farmville (yes yes I know)checked in on facebook, checked my email, studied my scriptures and read my BYU institute lesson. Further, I listened to my favorite radio station online while driving then just to add color had a video call and looked at the person I was talking to, read my voice mails as they now come in a text message; Hold on I'm not done, I also took amazing pictures of my grand daughter Aaliyah and made a video of my grand daughter Bella uploaded those to facebook and then clipped coupons for my purchase by using the barcode on my device and saved a dollar. Then...I watched a movie..all from the palm of my hand....so, BEAM ME UP SCOTTY! Is this not the age of star trek! In fact didn't they have cell phones, I'm sorry "communicators" here's a pic you tell me...looks like our old flip phones, the operative word here is old...


Have we not surely come into the age of star trek, and better yet have we not surpassed it! I know a lot of bad things are done with technology, but in my humble opinion, what counts is the good we do. Today let us not knock the internet and phones, and devices, and satalite Tv and social media. Today let us be thankful for the ease of our life that is provided for us through these advances. Lets look at the miracle of these things and the blessings that they can bring and not look at the evil, just for one day....


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