What does the though about logging out of applications mean? While on Facebook, sitting in my room I accidentally hit the "logout" button on my iphone. It made me think are we physically logged into out applications and services? Are we jacked into networks connecting people from hundreds of miles away? When we log into a social media site we are "connecting" with out friends and family in a strange setting where we are not physically close to them but through our words and thoughts we perceive that connection. This beings about interesting questions that may arise in the future when a vaster network of machines and humans is developed. This infrastructure may be used to utilize GPS to streamline roads and eradicate traffic. In our near future cars will have the ability to drive themselves. A interconnected network automobiles will be able to "communitate" and "choose" the fastest most efficient path. As humans we will just sit back and allow the machines around us to
I have been reading a book about the arts and Christians role in creating culture. Steve Turner, the author, asserts a major critique that modern Christian art does not speak about real life. The art created does not sound genuine or have any ties to real life that people outside the faith can connect with. While reading the book I listened through this album and I think that this song does a great job of breaking the mold. The members of Needtobreathe are all outspoken followers of Jesus but very little of the art that they produce mentions Jesus or Christianity at all. Instead they craft creative music, written from places of pain and joy. "Rise Again" steps through pain that occurs in life as we see relationships stretched and torn. The bitterness of broken hearts and friendships is then contrasted with the truth that we will get up from this pain and rise again. "I can see us moving on, I can feel that coming on strong", the joy that comes after the