SWITCH FOR THE HOME The modern home has all the conveniences and latest technologies. There is a switch for this and a switch for that. There is now one last […]
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A GREAT PLACE FOR EGGS A farm family had some friends from the city come to visit them. This was their three year old’s first experience on the farm. To
COMPUTER GOD A theologian asked the most powerful supercomputer, “Is there a God?” The computer said it lacked the processing power to know. It asked to be connected to all
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WRONG MOUSE The director of an office didn’t know anything about computers. When a worker casually mentioned that there was a need to switch ports for the mouse, she screamed,
FRANCIS SHAEFFER ON CREATION For several years Murray Eden at MIT has been using high speed computers to calculate the possibility of whether on the basis of chance there could
THE KILLER COMPUTER Hartford residents would have been included in grand jury pools over the past three years if not for one small problem: The computer thought everyone in town
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AN EMERGENCY CALL The story of David and Goliath was being taught in a five year old Sunday School class one Sunday. In explaining the story to the children, the
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THE POVERTY OF PROGRESS “We have used our wealth, our literacy, our technology, and our progress to create the thicket or unreality which stands between us and the facts of
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DEATH AND FOOD STAMPS Al Palanza’s brother had been dead for two weeks when a letter arrived at the address of the deceased. Social Services had written to notify him
LIMITS OF COMMUNICATION After many years of wanting an automatic-teller card, I finally got one. The first time I used it was at a bank machine in a nearby college
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CELLULAR LINK TO GOD A pastor was on his way to church with his three-year-old daughter. On the way the pastor remembered an urgent message he was supposed to give
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CONFUSING COMPLAINTS This news clip appeared in the papers after an electricity blackout: “During the power failure many people complained of having gotten stuck for hours on escalators.”
BEING WITH YOUR DAD Several years ago I made the acquaintance of a gifted young man who happened to serve as the director of the astronaut corp for NASA. This
TO RUSSIA FOR LOVE Some people will go the distance for love. That’s the bet of the American-Russian Love Connection, a service of a new on-line computer venture called PowerVision.
HUMAN TOUCH NEEDED In his bestseller Megatrends, John Naisbitt notes: “In our minds at least, technology is always on the verge of liberating us from personal discipline and responsibility. Only
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MULTIMILLIONAIRE FOR A DAY Howard Jenkins of Tampa, Florida had fun as a multimillionaire, even making a four million dollar withdrawal during his lunch break. Why? Because it was there
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THE WRONG VIRGIN A minister had run out of time to prepare for a sudden funeral. Using the latest technology, he went to his computer and found the funeral service
M R. APOLOGY Yesterday on the radio I heard an amazing news story about a new 900 phone number. It’s called — Are you ready for this — “Mr. Apology.”
NET LOSS OF PROGRESS Instead of the workweek shrinking, it is expanding; instead of free time increasing, it is decreasing. And in spite of “time-saving devices,” we have less time…
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THE BELIEFS OF SCIENCE Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or
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