But we may recall wistfully how Twitter enabled humankind to slip the surly bonds of any thought requiring more than 23 words.
In 1769, Scottish inventor James Watt created an improved version of the steam engine, which enabled humankind to power manufacturing and transportation on a previously impossible scale.
Humankind seized the opportunity and bore the "trust" (amana), but they were "unjust and very ignorant". Even so, God through mercy has guided and enabled humankind in bearing the responsibility of the amana, although they have in the process also been subjected to punishment for their hypocrisy and unbelief.
Such hope and opportunity enable humankind to cooperate with the Godhead so as to defeat Satan, avoid damnation, overcome death, and ascend heavenward.
In Egypt, sacrifice is not so much a gift of humans to the gods as a sacral technique that enables humankind to contribute to the maintenance and, if necessary, the restoration of harmony and order in the world.
It is only after the death of Hainuwele that human beings become sexual; that is, the murder of Hainuwele enables humankind to have some determination in the process of bringing new life into the world.
Regrettably, elections nowadays rarely address sustainability issues, so the scope is limited at nation or regional level to help craft the policies and practices that will enable humankind to navigate through the stormy waters that this century inevitably holds in store.
Echoing Paradise Lost, which dramatizes the self-sacrifice of the Son, Samson Agonistes creates in its hero an Old Testament prefiguration of the very process of regeneration enabled by the Redeemer and afforded to fallen humankind.
It has generated the wealth that has lifted large parts of humankind from subsistence and starvation, and has enabled us to fund life-saving medicine, education and the arts, as well as opportunities and material comforts.
As often as it is misunderstood and misrepresented, Haitian Vodou, with all it carries out of the cradle of humankind's birth in Africa and combines with Roman Catholicism, has enabled Haitians to laugh at death, as they have too often needed to do.
Since 1990, NVSM is an inspired technology, which has ushered in the digital age, enabled the development of all modern electronic systems, and brought unprecedented benefit to humankind.
