Knowledge Is Power?

Here's some information that should blow your mind:

From the dawn of time until 2003, approximately 5 exabytes of information were created. An exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes or 1 million terabytes. That's a lot of information, right? Well...
Today we generate that amount of information every two days!

The explosion of Google and other search engines reflects this incredible fact. Do you want to know something? Google it. Information is available at our finger tips in an unprecedented way. It's also easier than ever before to disseminate information. Hence this historic tipping point.

They say that knowledge is power. If so, we are more powerful than ever before in history. Maybe we are.

But in spite of all of this information - this power - we still cannot master ourselves. We are more aware of the obscure details of the universe, and the minute (and dare I say irrelevant) details of people's lives (thanks to Twitter), but we are less self aware than ever. And why not? With all of these distractions, who has time to listen to his heart?

Information does not have the power to change lives. Only God can do that. We are not more compassionate, loving, joyous, generous, wise, or good. We are (if Twitter is any indication) more narcissistic than ever. While all of the small narratives clamor for attention, the Meta Narrative moves inexorably forward.

God seems to prefer mystery. He is not terribly concerned with providing an information dump. I've noticed that He seems to tell me things on a need to know basis - and there is much that I clearly do not need to know.

So... while from a technological perspective we're living in an exciting - and unprecedented time, nothing much has changed if you're concerned about what really matters. The changes that happen in our hearts still take a long time. The transformation of our lives, a lifetime.