So he quickly turns and leaves, slamming the big steel door behind him, which keeps him from hearing a few choice words involving low-tech natural energy resources and innovative enemas. Well, I guess he expects a column hyping the glories of Science and Technology, and how it's going to make everyone's life easy and convenient in the future, just like on The Jetsons. Well, fuck all that. Putting the subject of Science aside, it ain't gonna be that way. Because you and I don't control technology.
Huge corporations do.
Naturally, they mostly use technology to invent new ways of separating you from your cash. Let me scare you with a really good example. I travel some. I don't stay in the cheaper hotels, having learned the lessons of winding up in hotel rooms with no Web access, musty smells and exposed plumbing. Well, the VCRs are disappearing from the hotel rooms now.