By Adam Bowers . In one way or another, the future can appear hopelessly bleak or excitingly optimistic. It seems that our society is now fascinated with its technology, and is hoping for the new religion of technology to lead the way into the future. Perhaps like so many bad science fiction novels and hokey movies, we really are finding ourselves under the spell of technology.
People now spend endless hours consumed in transmitting e-mail and designing web pages.
We do our ordering online, we can get groceries and food delivered to our door. We can meet new people from different countries. A larger section of the population is now aware of time zones, because we are all chatting with folks in New Zealand. We also use online currency converters to find out how many yen equal a dollar. We even have new sources of information on the Internet.