Thursday, February 4, 2010

Technology in Pushing Forward God's Work

It blows my mind to see how the church has used technology in advancing the Lord's work. The process of building a family tree has never been easier. Years ago, one would have had to go through volume after volume, catalog after catalog, in order to find information on a relatvie that lived one hundred years ago. Now, I can login to my FamilySearch account, and find out how many siblings my great-great-great-great-great grandfather had in less than three minutes. I think of the cool things about this phenomenon is that it is so tied to what I am currently studying. It is more efficient algorithms and data structures that allows users to find their ancestors among a database of billions of names in just a few seconds. I love living now! It blows my mind to think what other advances will come about in the next 10, 20, or 100 years in the way the church does the Lord's work. Who knows, maybe one day someone will create a data mining machine that does all of our extraction work for us. That would be awesome.

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