Ambition is not a modern phenomenon. 

In Genesis 11 the Tower of Babel was built by ambitious men who said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so we may make a name for ourselves." 

Boy, that was a goal, wasn't it? 

The Lord himself acknowledged that not even the sky would be the limit if ambitious men pour themselves into their technology.  He said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them." 

Building a city infrastructure was not the problem.  The trouble was an exaltation of man's name and the demotion of God's.  The significance of that tower was meant to be the glorification of man's ambitions and to be a proxy for a God no longer needed. 

Did you know 1969 was the first time two computers "spoke" to each other over what would be the internet?  One computer at UCLA and another at Stanford were connected by 350 miles of phone line. 

The simplest message, the word 'login' was transmitted one letter at a time.  "L' and "O" made it; but when the 'G' was sent, the Stanford computer crashed.  Look where we've come to now. 

The internet is a wonder, as amazing as space exploration or the discovery of electricity.  The problem is not technology itself.  The danger, like with the tower of Babel, is the deification of man, the spread of human vice worse than any cyber virus.  The internet, as you know, is awash with contamination; no surprise-our whole world is. 

Blessedly, our Christian hope is not in a tower built by man to heaven, but the building from heaven come down to man.

Godly ambition is rightly aimed.  It is the ambition to build the church through faithful preaching of the Word; the ambition to serve the world with the gifts of Christ.  The ambition to have His baptized people live in love toward God and our neighbor is good.  The ambition to use every technology for a godly purpose is blessed.  It's when knowledge, machinery, methods, or software assert the magnificence of men and make God superfluous that the end will crash.  But Scripture says the Holy City, the new city, comes down out of heaven from God. 

This is the city, according to Hebrews, whose "architect and builder" is God. (Heb. 11:10)  It is the city where God dwells with his people, the infrastructure of which is righteousness and the corners, walls, gates, and glory of which are Christ.

So, to a world where the newest thing down the pike is adored and embraced only to be junked soon for the next newest but inevitably obsolete gadget and where holiness is steamrolled routinely by the poison of our sin, into this junk pile has come Christ.  We are granted forgiveness in Him, given the truly new, eternally bright and clear message that will never crash and a new ambition to give glory and thanks faithfully to the saving Name of Jesus Christ and to the Father and Spirit who makes everything new.