In 1994, technology was a part of our lives, but it did not dominate us completely. So it was possible for Star Trek: TNG to imagine a world in which we, as peo

In 1994, technology was a part of our lives, but it did not dominate us completely. So it was possible for Star Trek: TNG to imagine a world in which we, as people, stayed much the same, but the worlds in which we traveled expanded infinitely outward. Technology for the past twenty years has relentlessly driven inward. It's so interesting to me that commentators keep making this same point over and over again, and the only answer we get is "But we'll just make even cooler tech, and it'll all work out." I don't think so. I think the time of man is at a close, whether we evolve past it or self-terminate. Billions of years of evolution has created this species of hominids that travel in packs. We are, instead, trying to re-make ourselves in something closer to the Borg. It's not going to end the way we expect it to.