The first essential for Adam and his descendents was to communicate, gather food and find a safe place to stay. Technology was in its infancy. Its first use was in tools to ease the task of survival. If not the next task, then sooner than later, it was to record their vanity, laws, history and stories.
What we do know is that writing preceded the Stone Age, so how long did our earliest human ancestors take to learn to write? It seems realistic that primitive language was incomplete, that gestures made up the shortfall, and besides being a part of the process of extending the language, those gestures, strokes and shapes - pictures, would soon progress from signs in the air, to marks on the ground and then to a more permanent media. The spoken word is more about principle. The written word brings precision.
A casual observer of humankind today might see that the ultimate purpose of man is to replace all that God can do for him, with creations of his own hand. Technology has made huge strides in all the fields of human endeavour, energy, medicine, travel, education, communications and entertainment to name a few.
As technology solves the problems of functionality, it addresses the desire for comfort, luxury, style and fashion.
No longer is a young man with a family, committed for life to the company store.
Now all individuals are tempted into becoming slaves to the system and their own desires. In vain, they cry, "Stop it I like it."
Religion and churches are falling into disuse, but religious fads are favoured. Fashion takes care of them in due course as the next fad comes along.
There is little respect for law as situational analysis takes its place.
Atheistic psychologists treat spiritual problems.
Now this is really generalising. Of course, wonderful work takes place in all fields, especially for mental and physical disorders, but for everything there is a price and this then presents a choice. What do I need or want and what can I afford. Funds rarely go to the greatest need.
The journey back to the technology of Eden is long, arduous and expensive.
