Like they say, "fortune favors the prepared mind", it's the same… if you look for your purpose and work towards it, you will find it.
They have to be to fulfill their purposes, and it's the same here.
So sure, with technology always, it's the same technology used for good and bad purposes, and technology itself doesn't have an opinion about what it's being used for.
But the church was denied a permit in April 1998 because the plans had only 16 parking spaces; town code required 94. "But it was the same building for the same purpose," Mr. Jenkins said.
The imagination that conceived it was her own, but behind it was the same energy and singleness of purpose that drove all her family's ventures.Outside in the churchyard is a rough stone box, a mausoleum that contemporaries called Druidic, Cyclopean, even "Archaean", designed by Sarah to commemorate her beloved sister.
The two cards I carry in it are the same two cards that had a purpose being in my wallet: my credit card, and my ID.
It's basically serving the same purpose as your plate normally would.
What amazed me was that all of those bits were for the same purpose, heading in the same direction.
Though the data they use may have increased in velocity, variety, and volume, ultimately it is still being used for the same purpose.
The second employee-vetted question was "How do you envision Twitter many years from now?" which led to all the founders doing a variation on the theme of the product being timeless: Though it will evolve, it will serve the same purpose, which is the basic human need to connect with one another.
