Men, the creation of God, have reasoning powers to put things in order in their environ ments. God gives them wonderful lights such as knowledge, wisdom, understanding and skill to ful- fill the goals of men's lives on this earth but in this world there is a strong corporate sense: 'Plenty of all -poverty for many'.
There is one thing and only one thing that causes breakdown in men-an exploitation of human and natural resources on earth. The cause of breakdown starts when men become greedy and strive hard to monopolise the earthÃs resources under private ownership and also to dominate their fellow beings. Their life styles become pompous and gregarious and hence, this ne- cessitates them to grab more and more from nature. Their value systems changed to exalt all personal achievements, even at the expense of others and their outlooks become too narrow and human culture itself is degenerated. The net result is that humanity is plunged into perennial conflicts of interests ridden with all sorts of hostilities, both individual and collective. This disrupt- ed harmony and peace everywhere on the earth. Are needs of men limited?
Today basic needs of men are limited while earth's resources are unlimited if used only to meet these limited need of men. When the natural character ends culture of men becomes sinful, evil structures emerge in the various realms of human action. In the economic field the structures so emerged were exploitative . God has provided abundant resources on earth to feed all human beings and even animals for all times. God is the owner of these resources and human community has to function as God's trustees, God's provisions were squandered for gluttoning greed which caused exploitation, depletion and waste of resources including the non-renewable and damage to ecology. Greed of men are unlimited and when greed becomes unlimited, the unlimited resources are limited. So men are what they are. These are the personal attitudes of men on earth. How men developed and adopted Technologies.
There can be no existence of science without men. Before men knew the knowledge and application of science which involves the systematised observation, experiment and induction men did not know how to produce the useful things which can be developed in their environments. Primitive men had used primitive tools and methods. Men become wiser and soon they discovered how to protect themselves from pests, diseases etc. and men, with their thinking, developed and adopted new technologies. They have always been looking forward to accept new technologies. Though the early men used woods and stones, they discovered copper and used extensively for storing and cooking food as utensils and making variety of tools. They then discovered bronze and iron and with these materials men came forward to discover and invent new things for their domestic/household purpose in the society.
In the past, the only source of energy to work avail- able to men was their muscular energy and energy of animals. Later men learnt how to tap energy of t he wind to make the boats move. Water came into play and thus non-resources were converted into resources. Today further advances are made in the fields of electrical engineering and electronic technologies. The field of atomic energy gives us an unlimited energy. This proves the fact that science gives many innovative ideas to men in this scientific or computer age. In the fag end of the 20th century, new discoveries and inventions led to new technologies. These, in turn, changed the course of development of society. The development of thermodynamics, telescopes and rockets, in particular, are the examples of technological development in this scientific age.
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The writer of this Article is the former Assistant Editor of Electronics Research Journal.
