Ultimately, you and I have to change our attitudes and trash a lot of the mail we get. Just because we have become interconnected, we have not acquired the right to bother other people with our writings, nor the obligation to respond to them. E-mail is not going to change thousands of years of socialization. Not a backlash, but how much better off we'll be with tomorrow's human-centered systems depends on the individual. The four cylinders are our physical, rational, emotional or artistic and spiritual dimensions.
Most technologists run on only one or two cylinders, generally the rational and physical.
So if you're a technologist or a business person focused on planning and getting things done, you'll be incredibly better off with computers. If you're an artist, you'll be only marginally better off. You'll have tools to do your creative work, but you won't be able to write or paint better. And if you're a monk, forget it. You won't be better off, because spiritual activity is primarily internal to people.