Babylon+OPE+Eunice

By the Waters of Babylon

Eunice Choi, Block E What is the author trying to tell the readers through this story? Beware of the Technologies

The author is suggesting that all the technologies these days are going to get back at us. When John finds out that the gods they believed in were dead humans in the past, he thinks that he should build again. “Perhaps in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.” Here, John realizes that all the grand knowledge in the pasts did not do the “gods” any good; it only destroyed them. The technologies in the past brought tragedy to the “gods” and the history repeated itself. With this story, the author is trying to warn us to be careful about what we do with technologies these days.