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I do not see that. Yes, I see technology misused, but I also see it being used constructively and for the betterment of humanity.Agreed. Technology is subject to right use. I do not see this in our world. I see technology misused, which brings harm, and abused, which brings danger.
The primary issue, for me, in the Tower of Babel story is pride seeking to overcome the presence of God. God understood, by me, as the whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. The building project is a metaphor making clear that human pride will lead to the division of our common human being. In our time frame this is very relevant. Are we not building a civilization that has eclipsed nature by resort to the artificial? This agenda being grounded in the philosophy of persons like Thomas Hobbes, who made clear our human ambition to exercise power for the replacement of the natural with the artificial. This in service to the "restless striving of power seeking power."The tower would have used technology to build. Was it also the process of the build itself that was the issue?
Are you saying that humanity has been bettered by the agenda of progress?I also see it being used constructively and for the betterment of humanity.
I am saying there is no agenda (see footnote). Technological progress began with Home Habilis and Homo Erectus making the first stone tools and has moved naturally onwards from there. Curiousity, imagination, and necessity drive progress, not some agenda. And, yes, we have been bettered in many ways. Diseases that were fatal to our ancestors are mere nuisances today. Communication is facilitated among people around the world. Ideas can be shared whether on paper or pixels. Those seem like improvements to me. If there is a problem, it is that social progress has not always kept up with technological progress, which is the source of problems we see today. But that's a human problems for humans to solve and has nothing to do with technology itself.Are you saying that humanity has been bettered by the agenda of progress?
I too will let the matter go.I am saying there is no agenda (see footnote). Technological progress began with Home Habilis and Homo Erectus making the first stone tools and has moved naturally onwards from there. Curiousity, imagination, and necessity drive progress, not some agenda. And, yes, we have been bettered in many ways. Diseases that were fatal to our ancestors are mere nuisances today. Communication is facilitated among people around the world. Ideas can be shared whether on paper or pixels. Those seem like improvements to me. If there is a problem, it is that social progress has not always kept up with technological progress, which is the source of problems we see today. But that's a human problems for humans to solve and has nothing to do with technology itself.
Anyhow, this merits its own thread so I'm not engaging any further with the subject in this one.
Footnote: I will concede that corporations may attempt to steer technological progress to suit their agendas, but they are not the source or cause of technological progress and it was happening long before corporations as we know them existed. Hence, no agenda.
Like many stories in the bible, to me , it is ancient people giving an explaination for something not understood. Similar to the creation stories
There is definitely that aspect to this story, but I think there is a deeper aspect that some of us are getting at, too.Yes, sometimes the Bible reads like an ancient version of Aesop's fables, or the "Just So" stories by Kipling.
The funny thing is that the global standard Unicode basically allows encoding of any character set, including things like emojis. So the Chinese can keep using Chinese characters and Europeans and North Americans can keep using our alphabet and so on, but any program properly implemented can handle any of them. My wife uses a keyboard on her phone and tab that can switch from typing English to typing Chinese (you type the Pinyin transliteration and it suggests characters using autocorrect) with the tap of a button or two.I just had a thought. What if the binary code of computers is the true return to a universal language?
What might God be planning to do about this one?
As it is written in the book of numbers, "10000111101101 10011100000101010101 1001101."I just had a thought. What if the binary code of computers is the true return to a universal language?
What might God be planning to do about this one?