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On YouTube there is a very interesting chap who calls himself The History Guy. He’s very good and doesn’t take political interpretations. In one episode he was speaking of the most important invention of the 20th century, that’s the 1900’s: which is the transistor. In the 19th century the most important invention was consider to be Samual F B Morse’s telegraph. Yes, there was wire-LESS transmission, think Marconi and radio, but it was limited in distance and required huge transmitters and antennas. Telegraph used repeater stations and could cross a continent cheaply and quickly.
Many consider Samuel Morse the Father of modern communication. The telegraph BEGAN electronic communication; that is the ability to transmit information across vast distances virtually instantaneously, and this transformed human culture. We are going somewhere with this, really!
The concept that speech uttered by 1 person somewhere could be printed in newspapers word for word around the world the next day…started to break down TRUST between factions. It began to break down alliances between groups/parties that had up to then kept disagreements from becoming fractures.
The timing of that invention played a critical role in the Civil War. The argument is not that the telegraph caused the Civil War, but that the telegraph: instant communication of what others were saying, broke down the system that up to then had PREVENTED the Civil War. Quite the OPPOSITE of SFB Morse’s own belief that he considered everyone in the United States a fellow countryman. He thought his telegraph would help bring people together – in 5/24/1844 the first telegraph message was “What hath God wrought?” Remember?
Now, this is just a theory, but I think a brilliant one, in connecting quick communication via telegraph with a breakdown in society. And the question for today is: do you think today’s technology can threaten our social fabric? I would say we are already witnessing the rending of that fabric, don’t you?
From the beginning, Adam and Eve, when that Garden incident transpired, we see finger pointing. That’s ALL we see in media today!
Don’t let fear grip you – Jesus is SAVIOR of all mankind. In Him we are ONE. In Him there is neither Jew nor Greek, male or female, slave or free. Point people to Jesus that we may all be one — and COME ALIVE!
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