Slippery Slope

Clark opens his last chapter with "The human brain is nature's great mental chameleon." This started me thinking and questioning. Do we really need all this technology and cyborg stuff to advance our daily lives, our society, and our relationships with such speed and efficiency? If we simply concentrate on applying more mental and cognitive power towards all of our tasks, could we achieve similar results without all the computers? Granted, we will never be able to make a cell phone call just by thinking without having it implanted into our heads. I'm arguing that we can to better without the use of implanted, or interactive technologies. We've all heard the line, "people only use 20% of their brain" or whatever the going statistic is now. But what if that is seriously true. Instead of becoming these great natural-born cyborgs, should we be sharpening our own saw. By spending all the resources and energy used in creating advanced machines and technology to instead develop our own god given minds, I think we could make a serious difference in the way people think/act/problem solve. This slippery slope of technology could be a very dangerous path to follow. Without close surveillance, society could easily become more and more dependent on computers to do daily tasks for them. I know we will never be able to escape technology anymore, but I strongly caution you to be aware of how much of your thinking you let something else do for you. The ability to think and relate with others is something that separates people from other "non-cyborg" animals, hopefully we don't lose this ability to a machine that we created.