Last week, I wrote about one of the early Barnabas Letters that got me in trouble. The earliest letters were all mailed out with envelopes and stamps before email was even a thing. Then as I finally figured out email, I started gathering email addresses from various places. If you are old enough to remember this activity, it was almost as exciting as the first login to America On-Line. Back in the day, that was an early form of Facebook. AOL was passed out on the small floppy disks back when our hard drives were huge sitting at forty megabytes. I can remember getting a floppy from a cereal box and signing up with the login name “barnabas14” because “barnabas” had already been taken. The seeming innocence of AOL was because we lived in a world where naivete was the king of the day. As much as I have benefited from all the technology that changed our world since then, as I have aged and read and researched about the detrimental effect it has had on our world it gives me pause to think about the future. What it holds for my grandchildren is the greatest concern that I have now.





