As a future science major, I must admit I love technology and humanities ability to consistently better itself outside the realm of selective reproduction. However, in the path we are headed, I see technology not being our savior, but being our demise. I don't believe it will one day turn on us like in the terminator, but we will still lose a part of ourselves to it, the essential core aspects of humanity that makes life so precious and treasured. For example, in Never Let Me Go, humans live off of the organs of donors, essentially making them close to immortality. Once humanity loses fear of an impending death, the dynamics of human life, thought, and society will change dramatically. As we also lose touch with the world around us, instead pulled into a virtual world composed of zeros and ones, not carbon and nitrogen, we come to the event horizon of our future. Do we keep taking steps forward, getting pulled into a path of technologically dominated lifestyles, or realize the dire nature of our situation and save ourselves while there is still time? The objective viewpoint of science is necessary towards research and development of new technology, however once we apply that lens to other aspects of our life, we lose what seperates us from lines of code.
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