I love technology. Recently, and actually many times over the past 10 years, I have been involved in online discussions on technology, the future, impacts on jobs, and the like.
I can remember when I was one of only a few who had a mobile phone. Maybe that even made me feel technologically superior. I needed to be out front in gadgetland.
Then everyone had a mobile phone. But I had a mobile phone and a Palm Pilot. Ha! Eventually those merged into a “smart phone.” When the Dayton Pops had a concert at the same time as an Ohio State University football game, everyone in my section asked for scoring updates during breaks in the music action since I could access the Internet and get ESPN online.
But technology is only useful if just about everyone can benefit.
Last night I was helping out a team of people on a ministry project serving a lasagna dinner to a group of people in a retirement apartment complex. Before I prayed at the beginning of dinner, we asked for prayer requests. They were concerned about one of the residents who had several serious ailments occurring simultaneously.
After dinner and entertainment (two very talented girls from a local high school), a woman of about 80 years of age stood up and, holding a Samsung Galaxy smart phone in a cool hot-pink case, asked if the group wanted an update on how their friend was doing in the hospital. Sounded like she was reading from a Facebook post. I was so impressed. And they were able to rejoice that their friend was showing positive signs of recovery from a stroke.
My mother had gotten into email before she passed away several years ago. She and one of my brothers were determined that they would get it set up without asking me for help. They did. And she was connected to her dispersed brothers, nieces and nephews for the last few years of her life.
It’s not the technology. When that gets out of the way and allows us to connect, that’s the cool thing.
Faith Venture 
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