All other rights reserved. It is the culture, not the technology of the Internet which has captured the imagination of millions and seems destined to become pervasive. Technology makes that culture possible. So technology is essential.
Life is self-propagating and evolves in adaptation to the exigencies of the physical world.
To some extent technology, too, is self-propagating. If something can be invented, it probably will be. Technology also evolves, adapting to the exigencies of human life and culture. Of the millions of possible innovations, only a handful will flourish and serve as the basis for further innovation.