2012: When Technology Takes Over?

Is the world actually ever going to turn into what we see in the Terminator? Or will we still have the control and convenience we take for granted now? (I'm already kind of assuming "Rise of the Machines" is going to happen)

Call me slightly paranoid...okay, maybe a little more than your average paranoid friend or person (you all know someone like that, I know you do), but I don't really trust the internet. When it comes to privacy, I just want to be that person who stays away from strangers, especially when I know there are ways around security and privacy settings.

I wanted to look at the way we, human-beings/people/you-and-I, take the idea of techonolgy and new media to that next level. The level we are all frightened of admitting: emotional attachment. I'd like to think I have complete utter control of my usage of technology. But there are some ways in which I can be naive. When I look at my phone, I have that understanding that, yes, it closes distances and allows me to keep in touch with people. But then there are those times when my phone fails to work and I feel like I've lost my sense of being. Too much? Okay, when was the last time you shouted at your computer saying "don't die on me now" when it froze? It's as if we give our technology an identity. It has it's own personality within our social sphere.

So what about the convenience? Well, it's in our evolutionary nature to make tools. From the first remenants of spears and cutting tools, to the flash iPad today. We like the fact that we have the capacity to make our lives that much easier to live in. In fact, we mistake our relationship with technology. We aren't it's masters (not the whipping kind at least). More like, we've become the slaves. We have this tendency to one-up our tools to the point where we become solely dependent on these things that run on lithium batteries or electricity.

I don't think the world will end in 2012. But I do believe sometime in the near future (as they all say) we will have aided in our own destruction by taking for granted the impact technology has on our being.