FINALLY! someone else who's cynical !

Of COURSE technology isn't going anywhere! Joely you are 100% correct. WE are the ones who have to figure out how to use technology to our benefit and not to our destruction. It's not like we're inventing new farming techniques and then saying "OH NO...RUN...we can't stop the progress!" No...we continue to use it until it's no longer economically consistent/the soil turns to shit and we have to move elsewhere.

It's kind of like saying 'guns don't kill, people do'

Technology isn't destroying the planet, WE are USING technology to do that quite nicely on our own. As Joely said, computers aren't going anywhere, our affluence (and with that it's inherent partner: technology) is not going to degenerate, but WE, the makers of technology, can generate it to our liking.

On the other hand, new technologies won't save us either. We have to reprogram ourselves as well - our way of thinking about how we use it. We're never going to change what we do, but we can certainly adjust the way we do it.