Surviving Technology

It have Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines" sitting on a pile of summer reading books, waiting patiently for the end of school. I don't believe we should be held hostage to the fate of our own biology. Like Kurzweil, I believe the ultimate purpose of technology is to escape the bonds of our own mental and physical limitations. Because natural selection, god, angles, or aliens are not going to solve this dilemma, "we" must find our own solutions. ipods, video games, GPS systems in our cars are all just diversionary, fun byproducts of the end goal - immortality. Becoming so attached to these diversions that one cannot function without them is probable. Young people today are nature deficit, focused only on the immediate and the familiar. I believe people will lose the fine art of practicing patience, so much so, that if made to wait long periods of time for information or entertainment new forms of "road rage" will take over. People will have to "detox" or decompress if removed from their gadgetry. Using the index in a book to find a passage, or physically flip through a music library in order to find a song (that is if there are any hard copies available to flip through) will be an exercises in frustration. Skills such as verbal communication using whole language and honest emotion will have to be taught in school or courses. Ignorance will no longer be bliss, there will be no excuse not to be up to date on the latest and greatest, on world events, politics, fashion, music, etc. I also believe the gap between people only a decade apart in age will seem further and further apart. This disparity will become more pronounced as technology becomes even more advanced. I believe religious zealotry will become more pronounced in answer to our "devotion" to technology. But a backlash may occur against religion because technology will preform real "miracles", like cheat death, Ray kurzwiel style.