William Gibson gives an interesting perspective on this sort of world view in the documentary "No Maps For These Territories": "I think what I'm most aware of

William Gibson gives an interesting perspective on this sort of world view in the documentary "No Maps For These Territories": "I think what I'm most aware of is the extent to which people are unaware of the extent to which they've been penetrated and co-opted by their technology. I mean, I take it for granted that I've been, but I think a lot of people today have this sort of Rousseau-esque idea that it's possible for humans to return to the natural state. But in fact I think that it's not, and if it were, they really wouldn't like it. I mean, I'm immune to a number of really terrible diseases, because I was inoculated against them as a child - that's technology. I'm a male human in my 50's and I still have most of my teeth - that's technology. I'm myopic, to the point of near blindness, and yet I can see - that's technology. It's too close to us to be very aware of it, if we could be stripped of it - which we can't be, because it's actually altered our physical being, we'd be pretty unhappy; and we'd start dying big time!"