We have to make hard choices and that often means real and painful sacrifice. So many popular modalities of spirituality and personal growth are popular precisely because they promise growth and fulfillment at little or no cost. But life is not like that. Life is not an endless cocktail party with gracious servants replenishing trays so we can eat whatever we want throughout the night. Choices about technology begin with choices about people.
Technology is about technology only in the abstract.
It is in fact always about people - people who are changed by it, people to whom it discloses new ways of being human. Yet it is precisely the human dimension that is often ignored as we distribute workers into simulated nodal space in cubicle cities, where they sink into the quiet desperation of interfacing only with simulated digital humans over telephones and networks. It is easier to dismiss employees who can't adapt to new software than adapt software to the humans who use it. Computer security is a contradiction in terms. Yet again and again, real security is the last item on corporate priority lists.