Technology is a wonderful asset to many people, but also, it is, or at least can be, a tremendous impediment. Not only must people, to maximize their power, have control over their immediate world, they also must be able to deal with things as mundane as computer gliches and viruses to cybertheives and virtual distractions. As the powers afforded by technology advance, so too must individual responsibility and control advance just as quickly and powerfully. And for personal sanity, one would think, we need to know who we are, too. As countless figures of power in classic literature and history have been corrupted by power, we must be able to recognize when somthing or someone has gone too far.
Power is good, and often starts with good intentions, but so did the hydrogen bomb.
Both for individuals, and as a culture it would lose all neccessity, for technology could replace normal reproduction with artificial means, and there would be means by which to simulate the effects of sex. Already we are faced with much confusion as to the anser of identity. In a book by Rosaene Stone the problemis very apparent. Just as power comes in many forms, money, fame, contacts, strength, technology, so to do ways to exploit that power and use it for extreme personal advantage.