Youths and Technological Advances: Merit and Demerits
TEXT: Daniel 12: 3
The youthful age is the part of life that succeeds to childhood (Webster, 1828). It is the
period of time when somebody is young: the period of human life between childhood and
maturity. A youth is being said to be Young, Obedient/Obstinate, Useful/Useless,
Tenacious/Turncoat, Heroic/Heroics. There are several instances in the scripture of which
there are youths whose lives have been made or marred based on their perception of
youthful age. (Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh:
for childhood and youth are vanity. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth,
while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no
pleasure in them. Ecc 11:10-12:1)
The term Technology is derived from the Greek words tekhnē, which refers to an art or
craft, and logia, meaning an area of study; thus, technology means, literally, the study, or
science, of crafting. Technology is ageneraltermforthe 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 Gods direction at creation Genesis 1: 26
-30.
Manyhistoriansofscience 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)
Technologyhasbeena dialectical and cumulative process at the centre of human experience.
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
