Kevin Kelly (co-founder of Wired Magazine) has a great take on technology and its role in human society. It's reminicent of Susan Blackmore's ideas on technological memes, or "temes" from an earlier post. I think we are in trouble when our technology moves beyond its role as a tool and we allow it to manipulate us. Note especially his nine bullet points mentioned in his short NYT article, Achieving Techno-Literacy.
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