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“Instant Message: #42: Looking Back ... to the Future (of Everything) on Apple Podcasts.” Apple Podcasts, Wall Street Journal, 16 Aug. 2019, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/42-looking-back-to-the-future-of-everything/id1437223143?i=1000447027951. Wall Street Journal held in May a technology festival called the Everything Festival, which featured the potential future of the world integrated with modern advancements. One of the main topics was how social services balance with real-life communication. For example, competing social business platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email call for our attention and care. The co-founder of Slack stated that people have stopped using email as much as more convenient services have arrived like direct messaging services such as SMS, but consumers continue to use email for people seldom contacted or outside their workplaces. Regarding balancing life, different creators have developed their software in a variety of ways ranging from the default being designed to keep one always connected to work to others designed to make one unreachable outside of work hours.
Another area of communication is with an app called Houseparty, which strives to create an ideal video chatting experience of speaking with each other as if they were in person. The goal is to make conversing not feel as an interruption but as a pleasure– even if it is only for a few minutes. Within the app, people are noted as being at home and different groups of people being categorized as different rooms. Direct messages are labeled as notes to discourage using them as a form of constant communication. After listening to this podcast, I found the ideas and arguments included to be logical. I believe that work consumes the lives of many people. As a son of a father who spends most of his time at work, I know how hurtful his distance can be to my mom, my siblings, and me. In Exodus 20, the Lord commanded the Israelites to take off from work the Sabbath day (now Sunday) to spend time with God and family. Being unreachable to work-related issues outside of your schedule is a great way to focus on relationships with your family members. In cases when family members and friends are distant, I like how Houseparty works to bring the people we love closer together by creating a personal environment. Throughout history, God has given us ideas to invent to make life easier but in other ways more difficult. With modern technology, it is easier than ever to communicate when distant yet harder when in person. Through these inventions inspired by humans made in God’s image, may the Lord use them to bring families closer together as they seek Him! COMMITTING TO GOD’S GRACE AND LOVE, Jeremiah Yonemura
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Boston Herald. “2020 Vision: 2020 Vision Episode 15 on Apple Podcasts.” Apple Podcasts, Boston Herald, 30 July 2019, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2020-vision-episode-15/id1460410497?i=1000445733922. 8/6/2019 – Jeremiah Yonemura
At the time of the recording, the Democratic Debates had already started to narrow down the candidates by increasing the necessary requirements to two percent support in the polls and increasing the number of individual supporters. By increasing the requirements, only six candidates qualified to for the debates, which caused people to wonder whether the CNN debates would only be one debate with all six people or two debates with three people. Another concern was about the questions and the interactions. Throughout the summer, people have worried about the whether the questions would be challenging and unique or the same and predictable. Reporters have said that they want topics to be across the board instead of only the usual healthcare, immigration, global warming, and anti-trump queries. For interactions between candidates, concerns and wonderings about attacks and towards Biden, Warren, and Sanders have spread around how it would affect the polls. I personally think that cutting so many people this early is stupid and uncalled for. While I don’t agree with any of the candidates, I think that they should all be able to join the debates because forcing any candidate out of the debates this early means that their campaigns are practically over. Proverbs 31:8 says to speak for those who can’t speak, and the debates enable those to get their voice out there who otherwise wouldn’t. However, the Democratic Party does have the choice on who they allow to enter the debates. On Truth and Love Ministries, I will not let heresy be published in a blog post or YouTube video. Likewise, the Democrats can do the same and restrict who they want from speaking if it is not discriminatory. |
ABOUT JEREMIAHHello, I'm Jeremiah Yonemura. I grew up in a Christian home, but I never really came to know the Lord until I was twelve years old. As I've matured, the Lord has cut out my sinful habits. At this point, I am still learning (as we all should be), and I my experiences are testimonies that I can share with those who care to listen. Archives
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