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The Importance of Technology in Our Daily Lives


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Technology is an absolute need we cannot escape from. Let’s just say, it has a very big role in most aspects of our lives. In other words, it answers most of Mankind problems. Across centuries technology evolves. The importance of technology is aiming for comfort of use in whichever form it is. It always directs for easiness in life.

Take the mobile technology for example. The faster the world is moving, the more hi-end the features are offered. Laptop gets thinner and smaller. It becomes more compact every year and offers more capabilities and top performance. It should load a lot of stuffs in a more concise shape. That is the need. Period. People should not take time to think of what should be brought over a sales presentation in the southern state since everything is already “filed” in the laptop.

Also for telephone. The need to be able to communicate anytime, anywhere, has inspired scientists to create cellular phone. And it gets smaller and smaller. And then it has more features, more games, more entertainment, and now offered more professional like having a computer in the pocket. And then from costly, it goes cheaper and better and faster and become more reliable.

The fact that the importance of technology in our daily basis is undeniable has inspired scientists to make improvements from time to time through their invented tools and devices for us to use, just to make our lives easier. We always tend to make one step ahead. Technology can help not just with the present but also approximating the future. It can calculate the potential profits and losses. And based on these, we can create plans and a list of pre-cautious steps for the future of our descendants.

Microsoft LucidTouch – The Technology That Will Change Laptops Forever


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Technology Innovations continue to surprise us with new and improved products to help make our lives easier and our days go smoother. Touch screen technology is one of the technologies that has emerged to help make our days go by a bit more efficiently, allowing people to access their calendars, address databases, and memo records all with just one tap of a screen. The biggest drawback about it is that sometimes, fingers get in the way of touch screen technology. This is where Microsoft’s new LucidTouch technology has come to the rescue in efforts to solve this problem.

LucidTouch Technology Works in Reverse

Currently the type of touch screen technology that most people are used to has to do with pressing their finger on a point and making an application pop up. While this may seem just well and fine, there are some people who are a great deal busier than that and have to be able to do multiple things at once-including type emails and open email applications at the same time.

With LucidTouch technology by Microsoft, there is no problem with the fingers blocking the screen because the hands are behind the device. Similar to a projector screen the image of the hands is projected through the device and to your eyes, and the actual touch screen capabilities are on the backside of the device. This means no more having to hold your device in one hand and tap the touch screen with another.

The image of the user’s hands can be seen through the screen, making it especially useful for games and things like navigational systems. It gives the illusion of the actual device being see-through, when really it is just the LucidTouch technology transmitting an image of the hand through the screen onto the person’s eyes. This helps greatly, allowing even the busiest of people to see the screens and navigate through the screens at the same time without their hands getting in the way.

Where did Microsoft LucidTouch Technology Come From?

Many users feel that Microsoft’s LucidTouch technology came from nowhere, and it really did. The touch screen being blocked by the fingers has been one of those problems that plenty of users had but few actually cared enough to speak up about, and the new technology has just emerged at the right time to make users in general that much more efficient with their phones. It makes business phones that much more easily worked and even simplifies GPS navigational devices. While the technology is sensitive to a person’s touch, it is also not so sensitive that it jumps at every little tap to the screen, which is one problem with the Iphone and other phones whose whole front is a touch activated screen.

What is next for Microsoft? Only time can tell, and this LucidTouch technology has not yet entered the mainstream market. AS a matter of fact, it was only introduced and put on display for the first time at a technology show in early March 2008, so many people don’t even know that this amazing technology is coming at them. In the meantime, it will surely be tweaked and redefined as time goes on, making for an even better piece of equipment once the final product rolls off of the lines-whenever that may happen to be. Are you frustrated with your touch screen phone or GPS? Look out for Microsoft LucidTouch technology in a device near you!

Vision For Technology In Church


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Does your church have a vision for technology? What would that look like if it did? Does it matter if your church doesn’t have a vision for technology?

Proverbs 29:18 says:

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. (KJV)

Don’t miss this verse. Where there is no vision, the people perish. The second part of the verse about keeping the law literally means guarding the direction of the vision, then the word happy literally means blessed. So, people perish when there is no vision, but those that guard the direction of the vision are blessed. The church needs vision for many areas, technology included. Where there is no vision, the technology will perish.

I like The Message version of this verse too:

If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.

Technology enables the church to reach people and quite honestly, the lost are not flocking to church. We, as the church, reflecting Christ in our actions and attitudes, need to reach out to our community and one way to do that is by using technology, via websites, podcasts and other ways. The technology ministry in your church needs to become a priority if it’s not already and the vision needs to become focused and defined.

If your church does not have a vision for integrating technology into ministry, don’t expect technology to enhance the ministry of your church.

How do you cast a vision for technology in your church? That’s a tough question and one that has no easy answer. I’ve seen churches that are not interested in using technology to enhance their ministry and anything done in that regard was not effective. (I’ve been part of a church like that recently, I couldn’t even begin to cast a vision and I didn’t last long!)

I am blessed to be in a church now that is open to doing more with technology and needs a vision in that way. I have seen steps taken in the right direction in the last couple of months and that is exciting. If you have cast this vision for technology in your church, please share, I think we can all learn from your experience.