>What will happen when we lack those abilities because all we need to do is interact with our technology? Red lights need to be popping up all over the place.

>What will happen when we lack those abilities because all we need to do is interact with our technology? Red lights need to be popping up all over the place. It might not be entirely tinfoil to believe it would lead, in to the words of O'Brien, to this: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever." The vision put forward in 1984 was fundamentally enabled by a breakdown/loss of empathy, and that's our main ability that's gonna be lost if society develops in the way you've suggested.