"You will be banished into the land of Nod, and while no harm will come to you by warning of my mark, no longer will the ground yield for you the abundance you need without great difficulty..." Or something like that, goes the Book of Genesis. Nevertheless, Cain and his family went on to prosper having great success in metallurgy, architecture and music making. Humankind has benefited much from the traditions of Cain and his family in the form of what we know now as science. In the tradition, we have invented plant and animal domestication; medicine freed us from disease and monstrous superstition. More people live longer now. We inhabit almost every corner of the Earth -- competing effectively with wildlife. And man has created a new Tower of Babel, in the form of the Human Genome Project and atomic particle collider laboratories.
The result? Well, kind of the same as it was eons ago: Inadequate food to end famine; new diseases to replace leprosy and small pox; planetary overcrowding and adverse environmental impact pose a danger to our very existence. Wizardry persists in the form of modern banking practices and virtual communities.
But we do have cable!
