The merger of technology and human consciousness, which is already a work in progress, is accelerating. Machines are becoming more humanlike, as speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology become viable. And as we humans turn to nanobionics to help keep us healthy and to monitor our biology, we become less wholly organic.
Conscious technology creates new 'spaces' that make possible positive and negative experiences.
These hybrids of technology and human consciousness reduce the time and effort that it takes to get from a thought to a connection to an objective insight. That leads to greater intelligence, to what mystics call enlightenment. With conscious technology, we may actually be able to do it.