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Life is hard--for everyone. No matter how blessed or fortunate you
might be, there is a level of difficulty to your life: hard
classes, jobs, relationships, and losses. But by following seven
basic life disciplines, anyone can experience accomplishment,
freedom, and ease in navigating through life's daily challenges. In
this positive, insightful book, veteran pastor Bob Merritt
describes a set of universal principles that can work for everyone
in every stage of life, showing that what you do today determines
who you become tomorrow.
"The life disciplines in this book will lead readers away from
failure and regret to accomplishment and ease--not easy, but ease
in getting 'out of the boat' and on with navigating through life's
daily challenges."--John Ortberg, author, "The Me I Want to
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"Here's your breakthrough--insightful, practical, biblical wisdom
that can turn your life around "--Lee Strobel, author, "The Case
for the Real Jesus"
As technologists, we are constantly exploring and pushing the
limits of our own disciplines, and we accept the notion that the
efficiencies of new technologies are advancing at a very rapid
rate. However, we rarely have time to contemplate the broader
impact of these technologies as they impact and amplify adjacent
technology disciplines. This book therefore focuses on the
potential impact of those technologies, but it is not intended as a
technical manuscript. In this book, we consider our progress and
current position %toward on arbitrary popular concepts of future
scenarios rather than the typical measurements of cycles per second
or milliwatts. We compare our current human cultural situation to
other past historic events as we anticipate the future social
impact of rapidly accelerating technologies. We also rely on
measurements based on specific events highlighting the breadth of
the impact of accelerating semiconductor technologies rather than
the specific rate of advance of any particular semiconductor
technology. These measurements certainly lack the mathematic
precision and repeatability to which technologists are accustomed,
but the material that we are dealing with-the social objectives and
future political structures of humanity-does not permit a high
degree of mathematic accuracy. Our conclusion draws from the
concept of Singularity. It seems certain that at the rate at which
our technologies are advancing, we will exceed the ability of our
post-Industrial Revolution structures to absorb these new
challenges, and we cannot accurately anticipate what those future
social structures will resemble.
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