Babel vs. the PC

Imagine a time when world was young. Migration led many to the land of Shinar. It was during that time, that adult male came together and decided to construct not only a metropolis but a tower that would attain the heavens. Seeing the structure, the Godhead was not very pleased. In fact, He knew what problem this could take to, so He confused world with different linguistic communications and scattered them across the face of the earth. Thus, is the story of Babel. (Babylon, the stays of an ancient city, is now located in Iraq.)

Eerily, times of a rich, historical past times analogue today's society. The acquaintance to modern civilisation is uncanny. In the biblical narrative of the tower of Babel, work force came together with one linguistic communication and one common goal: the desire to command the land and all that put beneath the tower. Making the impossible - possible to Person nature.

The building of the tower of Babel tells a story of adult male and its amorous lecherousness for greed and power. To construct such as a monolithic construction that led directly to the heavens, what a wonder it must have got been. Though the narrative is simple, its significance is vast. Herein lies the virtuousness of society itself. With the industrialised world at its extremum and infinite computerized technological advances, we have got reached the threshold of Babel. In this twenty-four hours and age, world have the agency to pass on to the far outreaches of all the earth. With mere shots upon a keyboard, we can talk with people of different languages, cultures, race, faith and region. There are no bounds to the human initiative.

What began as an outsize "brain" made of wires, metallic element and infinite music director boards, have evolved into the modern PC. We have got at last designed the perfect chemical mechanism to make our bidding. It believes for us, supplies and stores information, and now with more than than and more technology, we can even talk to other peoples by agency of a computing machine translator. The little silver screen that sit downs atop our business office counters, our work benches and our personal desks at place have go the inspiration of society's modernization, and have revolutionized the manner we make and brush most things.

Although it is just a machine, it have served a fantastic purpose. Through the usage of computing machine equipment, time is no longer a challenge. Messages, diagnostic tests and studies can come up back to us in a substance of seconds. Physicians, technologists, mechanics, archeologists, biologists, and so many other calling ways have got eternal usages for this manmade tool. It have got rewarded us richly with its knowledge, as we have enriched it with ours.

But, the inquiry still remains: At what point makes the tower of Babel (figuratively speaking) collapse? When have world reached its bounds and at what time interval will all be lost because of modern technology? The world is our oyster - but what we must never bury is that the pearl of an oyster is created by disease. Just a idea to ponder.

© 06/2003