What is our relationship to technology?

As we move now into the Singularity:

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My understanding of the coming singularity is that it is when the changes (on all levels technological, ecological, sociological, and physical) become so extreme that life become alien to anything it has been before. And Kurzweil and most thinkers including myself see this coming at the latest by 2045. However, I see it coming for factories worldwide and for the drivers of trucks and taxis (who drive for a living even sooner). 

 

So, various things are changing simultaneously beyond the capacity of any one or group of individuals to cope with in any real way. 

 

So, my question to you would be: "Is this a birth of a new type of life on earth or is it an abomination or is it both or neither. What is it that we are all creating as a group now? And do any of us really want to live in what we are all creating on any level at this point?

 

7 billion people are creating a type of change that the ecology of Earth and therefore mankind itself may not survive this. Or will we?

 

Our relationship to technology.

 

I think it is very important to not embue computer and robotic technology with God Like powers anymore than I think we should worship Mickey Mouse because we all loved him in the Sorcerer's Apprentice cartoon when we were children on Disneland or "The wonderful World of Disney" on TV in the 1950s through whenever it stopped. (But of course now there are whole Disney Channels on TV ) so it is a Brave New World Now. 

I guess what I would like to say is that thousands and millions of people created all this technology that you are reading this on right now around the world. Is it God? I suppose some people might worship the Internet but I don't. I see it a lot like a telephone or fax machine that goes many places at once without needing paper. So, a whole lot of trees are saved in what we are doing except for when people want to print out something at some location on Earth.

But, our relationship to technology should always be a lot like our relationship with cars, trucks, and planes. In other words it is a tool to do something constructive with. If we ever get to the point where our little children start to worship technology then we are in trouble as a human species.

If the only thing people can count on is their IPhone, IPad, or IMac then we are in trouble as a human species and I would say we are already almost half way to the problem I'm talking about here.

People created all this technology and spent millions and millions of man hours creating it all starting all the way back to World War II with code machines to adding machines to advanced computers and robotics of all kinds. So, they are not there to be worshipped but to be respected for what they are: The sum total of the best that human kind could create just like cars, trucks, boats, and planes and spaceships. 

So, worshiping our technology will only make us subservient to that technology and we will have free will no more if we do that now or in the future at some point or points.