Looking Beyond the Machine
I was thinking about how technology has removed a lot of the inefficiencies in life and how that applies to our plight as humans. The world markets, for example, are increasingly computerized and therefore less error exists for traders, bankers and analysts to take advantage of. So, in pursuit of efficiency, we create machines that increasingly remove the 'human' aspect in economics.
If you apply this approach to other sectors of society the results are somewhat mixed, but one universal truth emerges. We will never be satisfied with our human inability to match the efficiency of machines. So why do we try? Probably because the pursuit of perfection is exhilarating and can be quite lucrative.
So, what is the answer to the question of how will technology affect us in the future? The shortsighted answer might be that we'll extinct ourselves from this earth. I think we'll first arrive at another level of enlightenment where technology unobtrusively finds its place in our lives while we place more value on the human aspects of life, such as daydreaming. In fact, I think that's what lead to this blog entry ;-)