The benefits of the new technology of today, computers and the internet, are particularly ambiguous.
They have made work ever more efficient and knit the world together in a web of information and phone lines.
Some visionaries speak of a world in which Erg need not check in to his office; he can just dial in from home.
He wont need to go to a bar to pick up women because there are all those chat rooms.
Hungry?
Erg orders his groceries from an online delivery service.
Bored?
Download a new game.
And yet...
Many people, myself included, are a little queasy about that vision.
Erg may be doing work, but is it real work?
Are his online friends real friends?
Does anything count in a spiritual way if its just digital?
Since the Industrial Revolution, we have been haunted by the prospect that we are turning into our machines: efficient, productive, souless.
The newest technologies, we fear, are making us flat as our screens, turning us into streams of bits of interchangable data.
We may know a lot of people, but we have few real friends.
We have a lot of things to do, but no reason to do them.
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