What I want to talk about today are several of the recent influences on our society over the last 120 years or so. These are industrial, or technological influences I guess we could say. To get straight to the point, what I am thinking of today is: the telephone, the automobile, movies, television, and the internet. What I wish to do is go through each one of these areas as it pertains to where the Amish stand on them and how it is believed that they could be, or are, problematic. It is interesting how each of these advances, if you want to call them that (depends on who you are), have changed life as we know it, how it is experienced everyday.