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do "witty inventions" count as technology?
| Noah grows grapes and brews wine.
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| [[Genesis 11:1]]; [[Genesis 11:9]]
| human languages
| ''does this really count as a technology?''
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| [[Genesis 11:1]] - [[Genesis 11:9]]
| Cities of Refuge for people who kill someone unintentionally. The example is an axe-head accidentally flying off and hitting someone.
| What happens when technology has negative, unintended side-effects? The user of the technology is not to blame, as long as there is no malice aforethought.
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| [[Deuteronomy 19:14]]
| ''Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark''
| also [[Proverbs 22:28]], [[Proverbs 23:10]], [[Deuteronomy 27:17]]. If this refers to artificial landmarks created by surveying and placing a boundary stone, it implies several technologies.
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| [[Deuteronomy 22:8]]
| Israel's first OH&S policy!
We have a responsibility to pre-empt technological dangers.
Compare [[Deuteronomy 19:5]] and [[Deuteronomy 22:8]] and [[Leviticus 19:16]] with modern legal interpretations of duty of care and negligence.
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| [[Deuteronomy 24:6]]
| "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope."
| Woven cloth was first evident in 7000 BC ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_historic_inventions#7th_millennium_BCE]).
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| [[Job 19:24]]
| "Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever"
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| [[Job 28]]
| "Honor the Lord ... then your barns will be filled ... and your vats will brim over ..."
| Maybe it's not too much of a stretch to infer that if we honor God, then our technology will succeed.
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| [[Proverbs 8:12]]
| "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions."
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| [[Proverbs 17:3]]
| [[2 Timothy 2:20]] - [[2 Timothy 2:21]]
| All sorts of artefacts may be used for good or evil. Even people can become "an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work".
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| [[Hebrews 13:16]]
| "But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased."
| Maybe it's not to much of a stretch to apply this to communication technology.
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