They're carefully selected to help you. The alien issue. A lot of different bodies out there, for those who are using them. Yes, there are many modes of awareness out there that are very foreign to our perception. But, it isn't that they are necessarily more intelligent, but just more experienced.
Technology is a temporary tool.
Enjoy your life here, but don't become addicted to it. It is because it is the way it is that you are here, because the polarities provide the change for accelerated development if you become aligned with your Soul purpose for being here in the first place. It can also be a trap which will suck you in, time and time again. Your choice, to evolve or de-evolve, to gain awareness or remain ignorant and, frankly, stupid. It will not exist in its current form much longer anyway, because change on a larger level is the nature of reality, and those who want to manipulate and control will be left to themselves, until they evolve, while everyone else takes a different journey.