tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7305496736552575948.post1358502620131967675..comments2023-07-03T08:54:56.572-06:00Comments on Kevin's Totally Awesome Blog :): Industrial Revolution: For Better or For WorseKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00325889134180595975noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7305496736552575948.post-75721779901442311792010-10-05T18:40:59.489-06:002010-10-05T18:40:59.489-06:00Very good point Erin! I think you are really on to...Very good point Erin! I think you are really on to something there. I think many of the inventions and improvements that we have in the world today were inspired by God in some way. Even if it is just to improve the lives of humanity, God may help those people so that the lives of His children could be blessed.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00325889134180595975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7305496736552575948.post-68714278362046963442010-10-04T21:49:47.983-06:002010-10-04T21:49:47.983-06:00To answer that question in just one word: luck. Or...To answer that question in just one word: luck. Or the Holy Ghost, if you believe in such a being. Think about it, only the inventions have helped the work of the Lord progress have been kept around, everything else is litter on the side of the road. Malcom Gladwell tried to reason out why some people are successful and others are not, in his "Outliers", but how did those people get into those positions? Well they were born there, which for me indicates a plan beyond our own.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623998223692740842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7305496736552575948.post-68907863984815373102010-10-04T20:53:35.659-06:002010-10-04T20:53:35.659-06:00The ideas that take off are the ones people can ge...The ideas that take off are the ones people can get behind. They are the ones that can lead people to reach their potential. The cause or idea becomes the leader to the people. Check out this post by Shuan Pai in our class. Read the comments afterwards. I think it continues your discussion with what ideas take off and which do not. http://hdatgh.blogspot.com/2010/10/during-course-of-industrial-revolution.html. Also check out our professor's blog post about critical mass and how the idea of riding bikes has taken off in a great cause. Bike riding has become a social advocacy and social fun thing to do. http://digitalcivilization.blogspot.com/2010/10/connecting-in-person-critical-mass.htmlkristinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986355438358643950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7305496736552575948.post-34164219865363902932010-10-04T13:56:32.236-06:002010-10-04T13:56:32.236-06:00Sometimes it is easier to just exist rather than t...Sometimes it is easier to just exist rather than to bloom wherever you are planted. Blooming takes energy, focus, determination, and drive... and you never know when you will suddenly be plucked out of your happy home and tossed into the next place - sometimes better, and sometimes worse.<br /><br />But, if you bloom everywhere you go, you will find that your life is happier, your home is better, your friends are friendlier, your neighborhood is cleaner, and your face will smile!Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06383125109198446007noreply@blogger.com