Now we know how flawed that tehnology is. Some believe this might happen, if chips and computers that are embedded in electric power systems and other crucial infrastructures fail as the millenium turns. This could be even more serious than failures in bank records and other commercial enterprises. Here too the Bible points the way. Regrow local and regional eco-communities, intimately intertwined with the earth.
Panic is born of ignorance.
Then if disaster comes, we will be able to meet it without martial law and without catastrophe. If disaster does not come, we can take new joy in the communities of human beings and the earth they live in. Perhaps parts of our global super-structure, our Tower of Babel, are about to die. Yet we also need a learning that is not so clear at the end of the Bible's Babel story. From the death of our habitual addictions to the World Machine, we can draw forth renewal and rebirth of the Organic Earth, in which each organ is sacred and the whole is sacred too.