Someone asked me last week, "In the long run, is technology our saviour or our demise?" I thought it over, and the thing is, we made technology. It is only an expression of our humanity, so it's wrong to think of it as something given to us by aliens—and then we can blame technology, not ourselves, when something goes wrong. The question that was really asked was, "Are humans going to kill themselves?" The answer would be the exact same answer that would be given 10 years ago, 2,000 years ago or 1,000 years in the future. We're still around, so the answer is no, we're not, but this still doesn't change the fact that we're now stuck living inside the future where we're stuck worrying about this question for all of our waking hours.