Friday, 20 April 2012

Social Networking, A modern day Tower of Babel.

In the Bible there are many cool stories to read, stuff even the stubornest of Aetheists will enjoy.  I'm not an aetheist myself, but I wouldn't call myself a devout christian either.  Anyway out the bible, one of my favourite stories is the Tower of Babel.  If you've never heard of it, it's a story set in a time when our world was one complete land mass with no communication barriers whatsoever.  The result?
A tower leading up to the heavens built by people from all across the globe, but god didn't like this though and in the process of knocking the tower down he seperated the world in to todays 7 continents.
The result? Hundreds of different languages and millions of people that can barely communicate.

That was then though and this is now.  How many friends do you have on facebook that you otherwise wouldn't? And how many of these people do not live in the same country as you?  And It's not just facebook. No, it's the whole internet.  A worldwide increase in communication.  In fact technologies even exist online that will decipher foreign languages.  So almost - if not now soon - we shall be able to talk to anyone in the world.  Something I believe is only the beginning of a more united front.  Imagine - the greatest scientists in the world all working together.  Imagine what they could create?  Interstellar travel - the most powerfulest weapons this world has ever seen - rampaging dinosaurs - I think they could.  A parallel to the old bible story or a prediction of the future?

Check out my related poems.
http://chivs86.hubpages.com/hub/Chivs86-Poetry-The-Tower-of-Babel
&
http://chivs86.hubpages.com/hub/Chivs86-Poetry-3-Degrees-of-Seperation

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