>You think .NET was designed from the beginning "with basically glorified
>web-browser like interfaces for presentation and UI."

Yes. And I would even go so far as to say the people who were initially designing technologies like this, and I mean the men in rooms filled with white boards and pow-wow discussions about "what to do next," they may not have even had those goals in view when they set sail on this course of .NET, the virtual atop the physical ... but the inspiration as to why they even began heading down those mental paths (from the beginning) was coordinated long before, and ultimately "given to them" for these explicit purposes, as they were the ones in power, the ones God had raised up for this purpose.

Over time men began to see the realization of the vision, and began embracing it. But it was a coordinated effort from above, from the start, and one which operated outside of their direct knowledge or control.

Everything that's happening in this world is being directed. Purposefully. There is a harvest coming. An end-time event. People everywhere are making their choices today about where they will spend eternity. This is all of us here. We all choose, either we'll follow after Christ (the truth) because we are willing to do so, or we'll follow falsehood.

Every person everywhere is under this exact scrutiny, and nothing else here matters. It's a test given unto all people by God to see where their faith lies ... in man, or in God.

God really is in control. The great thinkers, contributors of the world, these were not accidents. Genius, visionary men have been given to us so as to carry out God's plan, to get us to the point things need to be at to bring to conclusion that which was foretold before Christ came, and also by Jesus Himself, and in other books of the New Testament. There is always a period of time of fulfillment before God acts. It's reported throughout scripture that enough X, Y or Z has to happen before the event comes. And we're "on a buildup to detonation" right now.

Each of us is given only today with certainty. Only while we are here, awake, alive, able to think, move and do, only today do we know we have a chance to call upon His name, and be saved. We don't know later today or tomorrow if we'll have a heart attack, be hit by a bus, have a meteor fall out of the sky and strike us, slip and strike our head on the coffee table, swallow our tongue ... whatever.

The face clock brings it home.
Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.
Every one of us only has a certain number of those. Then it's over.