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How the Innovations of the Latest iPhone Help Eradicate Poverty

Technology is the gradual elimination of scarcity, which is to say, poverty.

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Oct 07, 2014
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Technology is not so much "tech" in the sense people think of it, as the putting together of the giant puzzle of the world.  Sand was here before anyone knew you could make it into glass, or lenses, or semiconductor chips, or beach resorts.  But God knew from before the Creation.  Technology is thinking God's thoughts after Him.  Technology is the pushing back of the Curse.  Technology is the gradual elimination of scarcity, which is to say, poverty.

Sometimes people can see this with the big advances, like Salk's polio vaccine, but miss it with the smaller things, like a better iPhone keyboard.  Dr. Anne Bradley explains below why both matter more than you think. — RDM

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