@MaceDindu @nordtrack @dytha @johndolph @BowsacNoodle @Beomus @lonelyranger I used to think about this a lot, and have been trying to reach out to ray kurzweil and derrick jensen to have a debate on this very kind of question. ( Jensen is for it, incidentally, but I can't seem to get through to kurzweil )

But after reading that last econometrics textbook I no longer view 'technology' through this lens. Dependence on technology isn't the problem imho. There's problems involved in the use of technology, of course - complexity, political power politics (expressed through the control of technology) and so on. But what tools are used in the year 3023 or whatever, should humanity live that long, is something that I will leave for the kids to deal with. I have more pressing concerns, like leaving the next generation with working brains, during an era where a BSL3 brain damaging virus is on the loose.