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Technology is a general term for the processes by which human beings fashion tools and machines to increase their control and understanding of the material environment. In fact, this is in direct pursuance of God’s direction at creation Genesis 1: 26 -30.
Many historians of science argue not only that technology is an essential condition of advanced, industrial civilization but also that the rate of technological change has developed its own momentum in recent centuries. Technological innovations now seem to appear at a rate that increases geometrically, without respect to geographical limits or political systems. These innovations tend to transform traditional cultural systems, frequently with unexpected social consequences. Thus technology can be conceived as both a creative and a destructive process. Bill Gates (1955 - ), said “a digital nervous system enables a company to do information work with far more efficiency, depth, and creativity. Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980) said the new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990) acclaimed that “by his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed”. 1 Technological Advances: Chronology Index (Dan 12:3; Ecc 7:25,29; Psalms 106:29) Technology has been a dialectical and cumulative process at the centre of human experience. …show more content…
Since the account of creation man have evolved mechanisms to control its material environment. Early technologies involve the use of stones, bones and animal materials for agricultural purpose as well as for the provision of shelter. Even the bible record that Tubal Cain was an instructor in the use of brass (alloy of zinc and copper) Gen 4: 21 -22. These breakthroughs have continued at astronomical rates from primitive tools to sophisticated ones.
In fact, Herb Brody said “You get up in the morning and put on your glasses, snap on the radio, and grab the morning paper. Already you have directly benefited from three of the greatest inventions of the last 1,000 years: the glass lens, wireless communications, and the printing press. Later you ride the subway to work, where you use a computer and make telephone calls—three more developments made possible by scientific breakthroughs during the last millennium. The last 1,000 years have produced an incredible number and variety of scientific and technological breakthroughs. These inventions either provided radically new ways to do an important job, or they made possible tasks that were previously unimagined. Their impact was felt, if not right away then eventually, by a large portion of humanity. These developments have enabled significant new technological innovations and scientific discoveries. And finally, they have had an enduring effect on the world. Examples of such include: the compass, the mechanical clock, the glass lens, the printing press, the steam engine, the telegraph, electric power, wireless communications, antibiotics, the transistor and others. What a difference 1,000 years have made! In AD 1000 the world was a very different place. Most people spent their entire lives within a few miles of their birthplace. Communication was limited to a small circle of villagers and the occasional passer-through. Disease struck with dreadful regularity against a population that had almost no defenses. With the exception of a few priests and other elites, people were basically illiterate, and there was very little to read anyway. People in 1000AD measured time by the Sun and the Moon. Scientific observation was limited to what could be seen with the naked eye. Today, thanks to a millennium of scientific discovery and innovation, people's lives have been transformed. They can view events as they happen half a world away. They can pick up the phone …show more content…
Technology that should have been instrumental in the promotion of godliness has been used as means of promoting unrighteousness and ungodliness “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. (Gen
Many historians of science argue not only that technology is an essential condition of advanced, industrial civilization but also that the rate of technological change has developed its own momentum in recent centuries. Technological innovations now seem to appear at a rate that increases geometrically, without respect to geographical limits or political systems. These innovations tend to transform traditional cultural systems, frequently with unexpected social consequences. Thus technology can be conceived as both a creative and a destructive process. Bill Gates (1955 - ), said “a digital nervous system enables a company to do information work with far more efficiency, depth, and creativity. Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980) said the new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990) acclaimed that “by his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed”. 1 Technological Advances: Chronology Index (Dan 12:3; Ecc 7:25,29; Psalms 106:29) Technology has been a dialectical and cumulative process at the centre of human experience. …show more content…
Since the account of creation man have evolved mechanisms to control its material environment. Early technologies involve the use of stones, bones and animal materials for agricultural purpose as well as for the provision of shelter. Even the bible record that Tubal Cain was an instructor in the use of brass (alloy of zinc and copper) Gen 4: 21 -22. These breakthroughs have continued at astronomical rates from primitive tools to sophisticated ones.
In fact, Herb Brody said “You get up in the morning and put on your glasses, snap on the radio, and grab the morning paper. Already you have directly benefited from three of the greatest inventions of the last 1,000 years: the glass lens, wireless communications, and the printing press. Later you ride the subway to work, where you use a computer and make telephone calls—three more developments made possible by scientific breakthroughs during the last millennium. The last 1,000 years have produced an incredible number and variety of scientific and technological breakthroughs. These inventions either provided radically new ways to do an important job, or they made possible tasks that were previously unimagined. Their impact was felt, if not right away then eventually, by a large portion of humanity. These developments have enabled significant new technological innovations and scientific discoveries. And finally, they have had an enduring effect on the world. Examples of such include: the compass, the mechanical clock, the glass lens, the printing press, the steam engine, the telegraph, electric power, wireless communications, antibiotics, the transistor and others. What a difference 1,000 years have made! In AD 1000 the world was a very different place. Most people spent their entire lives within a few miles of their birthplace. Communication was limited to a small circle of villagers and the occasional passer-through. Disease struck with dreadful regularity against a population that had almost no defenses. With the exception of a few priests and other elites, people were basically illiterate, and there was very little to read anyway. People in 1000AD measured time by the Sun and the Moon. Scientific observation was limited to what could be seen with the naked eye. Today, thanks to a millennium of scientific discovery and innovation, people's lives have been transformed. They can view events as they happen half a world away. They can pick up the phone …show more content…
Technology that should have been instrumental in the promotion of godliness has been used as means of promoting unrighteousness and ungodliness “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. (Gen