Social Implications of the Technological Revolution

Attention, you are now entering the Information Age.
Those who enter will be drastically changed forever.
Those who do not enter will be left behind to rot.
(off on a tangent at times)

The technological revolution began in the 1980's and
is now running at full speed.  The technological
revolution is the change of our focus on industry to
computers and technology.  The pride and joy of the
technological revolution IS the Internet.

Today, we are dependant on technology.  Today is the
first day of summer, yet I am freezing.  Technology
has made it possible that I can wear the same clothes
on June 21 as I did on December 21 and still feel
comfortable.

In the future - it has actually already started - the
technological revolution will increase the gap between
the first and third worlds.  it takes me minutes to
prepare and eat a meal, that gives me more time to use
the Internet so I can keep up with the technological
revolution (checkmark).  A mushroom farmer in Africa
will spend 18 hours a day farming mushrooms.  He has
no use for the Internet.  He can't afford a computer,
he is probably illiterate and does not even know what
a computer is. (is he disadvantaged since he does not
have access to the Internet?)

Two paragraphs ago I said that I could be comfortable
wearing the same clothes on June 21 as I did on
December 21.  I could be comfortable but I'm not.
Something is nagging at me.  We shouldn't be playing
with nature!  What happens when the air conditioner
breaks?  We will all get hot.  In the future, what if
the food replicator breaks, we will all die.  We are
already too dependant on technology.  At the end of
the movie Cable Guy, Jim Carrie jumps off a tower down
on a sattelite dish that gave millions of people
television.  Before he jumped he said "It's time to
kill the babysitter," meaning television.  The view
changed to a man who's TV had just gone blank, he
picks up a book and starts reading it.  This will
probably not be the way it happens.  Technology is
killing us and it is trying to be our master.
(controlled by humans?) [[[Tao note: Ok I don't even
know where I was trying to go with that one]]]  We
must start controlling technology - as it is too late
to destroy it - using it to solve the worlds problems,
using it to explore the oceans and space.

[[[Tao note: I was, and am, of the opinion that we are
entering a new dark ages that we'll only get out of
once space travel is economically viable]]] (Isn't
that being done already?)

"I am Vadar, a robot, I can screw up my brain and get
a new one, you can't so surf safe."

(??) [[[Tao note: I can't figure out if these question
marks were about the essay in general, the quote
above, or the note below.. but does it really
matter?]]]

Note: I know you don't agree - 1% on ISU - but, tough [you should see how hard she was pressing the pen on the paper when she circled the word tough.. it almost ripped the paper!!!]  , maybe I can still save you.
NOte #2: May I have a copy of this essay? (Why?) [[Tao
note: So in the future I can post it on the Internet
and laugh my ass off.]]