The good-bad-ugly mix of technology came to a particularly obnoxious expression at the Tower of Babel, an attempt to consolidate all known building innovation to build a rebel city.8 More than a simple skyscraper, Babel was a new empire with a central city unified around a temple (the tower), all dedicated to the worship of human progress. Suppressing God’s ingenuity in all human advances, Babel was man’s attempt to hijack technology and to fabricate an entire society and religious life in rebellion to the Creator.
