In other words, the web we have created is starting to allow us to shine through the billions of us and let one person have the spotlight. This was much more difficult 100 years ago, even though the population of humans is rising every day. Over that short period of time we have come this far, it will be very interesting to see where the internet takes us in the near future.
Our lives are becoming more and more attached to technology. In this sense should we ever work to draw a line in the sand with technology? Will we ever be able to at this rate? Or are we in a “death spiral” that for now we are all enjoying? It’s difficult to look that negatively at technology right now, but maybe it’s something we should all keep in the back of our heads.
I have also thought about the "death spiral" aspect of technology. It's difficult to look negatively at technology right now because when you do, you're looked at as resistant to change/behind the times/lazy/unconcerned/etc. But I wonder how "sustainable" technology really is. It's kind of scary to imagine a world where everything only exists in the internet, computers, or iPads—if these machines ever failed there would be no documentation, nothing for paleantologists to dig up in the future when they're researching our generation (that was metaphorical, I know that papers and stuff don't survive long enough for paleantoligists to dig up). But still. If technology failed, what would we do?
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