Technology: Serving God

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TechnologyServing Gods World

• 13th September 2008

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Technology At Home

• Home telephone (land-line)
• CD players / digital radio
• Television / DVD players / digital TV / HD TV
• Digital cameras
• PCs / laptops / wireless networks / gamestations
• Mobile phones / MP3 players / PDAs
• Credit cards
• Washing machines / dishwashers / microwaves
• Cars / SatNav / GPS tracking

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Technology At Large

• School teaching learning
• Office office systems, document storage, entry
  surveillance
• Factory manufacturing control systems, robotics
• Shopping EPOS, barcodes, scanners, RFID
• Warehousing and Distribution stock control,
  product expiry, route planning, GPS
• Transport buses, trains and planes
• Military and space programmes
• Film and programmes production, CGI

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30 Years Ago...vs Now

• Size and capacity
• mainframe to laptop ( client/server
  supercomputer)
• User Interface
• punched tape/cards to GUI virtual
• Functionality
• record keeper calculator to business driver
• Diversity
• academic, commerce, home, control, robotics
• Impact and Attitudes
• low impact to global
• Career progression
• job for life limited roles/skills to
  fluid/flexible market multiplicity of
  roles/skills

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A Job in IT!
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Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

• IT Professional
• Professional ethics
• Business ethics
• Christian responsibility
• Technology affects us all
• Misuse and abuse vs power for good
• IT does it quicker, easier, cheaper, more
  efficiently

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Exploit Technology

• Information and Learning Internet daily
  lectionary, sermon ideas, information, images,
  visual aids, music, CME
• Communication email, mobile phones, Forum,
  webcasts, live links
• Presentations, documents PowerPoint etc.
• IT does it quicker, easier, cheaper, more
  efficiently
• Do things quicker, easier, better and leave
  time for those things that technology is
  incapable of handling!

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TechnologyIs Serving Gods World