To whatever extent it is not a blessing, it is not progress. If it is progress, then we must thank God for it—He is the one who gives us the power to get wealth, and there is no appropriate or safe response to that wealth other than complete and simple gratitude.

So when Adam found the beehive-knocking-down stick, he was wealthier than he was before. When a man purchases an app for ninety-nine cents, he is wealthier than he was before. Tools are technology, and technology is a form of wealth.

Something Solomon insisted on, and that we ignore to our own detriment in matters of technology, is that there is nothing new under the sun.

Jesus is already Lord of those who recognize it, and He is already Lord of those who refuse to recognize it.

The second good thing about imitation is that it enables you to build on the good work that others have done,

Libraries make a handful of people really wise, and provide many others with artificial props for their footnotes. Everywhere the human race goes, it drags a bell curve around with it. We put on airs because of where we are on the existing curve (or we feel bad because of where we are), but we fail to recognize that a blue-collar auto mechanic

Pascal observed somewhere that it is a mistake to think that we can do all of the time what we can do some of the time. Put another way, it is a mistake to think that your high points, or your fastest speeds, or your most productive moments, can simply be duplicated over and over again at will.

Remember, wealth is a blessing, and what you do with it matters. What you do with wealth will either keep it a compounding blessing, or it will wreck everything. But when it is first poured out on you, it is a blessing. So now we need to talk about another particular kind of wealth—the wealth composed of technological progress over time.

When it was just Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel, they did not need the Internet. Nor could they have built one if they did need it. Neither did they require Interstate highways. And so, some idyllic dreamers have assumed that the ideal condition of man must be the primitive one. But why would we assume that we have lost something essentially human just