Has technology gone too far?

It's more that it's gone in the wrong directions.

in some aspects, yes it has.

I don't think it has gone too far. We're just in a period of adjustment. Eventually, it will even out and the laws and social mores will adjust. It's happened before. The Church was terrified when the printing press was invented and books became more widely available. Lots of people proclaimed that the radio would kill theater and ruin human interaction. People got used to the radio, and when the television came around they had the same fears. I think part of the problem is that, as a society, our attention spans have dwindled down to almost nothing. We're obsessed with gossip and celebrity status. If it's not a sound bite, then it's TL;DR. As Fox News has shown, if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes truth. Modern communications have certainly played into this, but I don't think it's causative. Like I said, though, we're in a period of adjustment. The new technology will become old hat eventually. When the novelty wears off, people will probably stop Tweeting about the minutiae of their day (or we'll just learn to ignore them). We'll adapt... at least until the next revolution in communications comes along and we have to go through the whole process again.

Not yet

Where should technology have stopped? Before or after we got vaccines? Before or after we got MRI machines? Before or after nuclear power? Before or after genetic engineering of crops saved a billion lives? It's easy to say 'we've gone to far because life isn't like it used to be'. It's hard to say that life is definitely worse now. Especially since a few steps back, half the people alive now would have been dead.

yes and no. yes as in it does separate us, and no as in if there were no advanced tech people are people and i thought they would work together. only reason why a small village would work together is because they all are raised and born in a small group and share a same opinion like towns where they dont have to lock there doors at all because they all know one another.

It depends on what liberties you want to give up... If you are OK with an absolute limit of one child per couple for the next hundred years or so - then we might be able to live with less technology in the future... When the population of the world trims down to about 300,000,000 people (a decrease of 95% in population)... Or, you could get rid of all modern medicine - that would trim the population... The fact is that more than half of the population live in cities that cannot feed or clothe or power the inhabitants thereof... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6H-w9Rm46o

the real problem is that technology still has a long way to go but there is a lot of suppression in high places preventing us from achieving this quantum leap. The result is that at present technology is mushrooming out sideways instead of going vertical. Those manufacturers are now bashing out their brains trying to invent some new gismo that will catch the public's attention. There is a totally new paradigm of physics now available and this is thoroughly explained in a book, and how a new physics can be created baed upon a genuine new form of energy. See... www.energyandphysicsatotalbreakthrough.c…

You use things like social media as an example of "unnecessary" technology, but remember how important things like Twitter were for the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia. I don't think technology is driving us apart. And I think the ability to bring people closer over large distances outweighs any slight distancing effect locally. Have you ever tried to communicate with someone on the other side of the world by phone? It's expensive and inconvenient. There may only be a short period where the timezones align in a way that's not inconvenient for either party. And technology isn't forcing people to be lazy. If someone would rather play Angry Birds than talk to you, that's just showing their true character. Edit: And if there was no demand for people to tweet that they got an Egg McMuffin, there would not have been a Twitter for Egypt. Like any technology, it isn't inherently good or bad. You can buy a gun to shoot someone when they break into your house, but the burglar can buy one to shoot you too. The same cell phones that allow people to call 911 after a car accident can cause the accident if people misuse them.