It really depends on when you draw the line of being consumed. If you want to draw a super-fine literal line like - Are the robots going to rebel and kill us all? - I'll have to go with no. But by many definitions, someone could pretty well argue we've already been "taken over" by technology. Hard to say. That's my cop-out answer.

Define technology, essence and reciprocal life, please.

taking from the land and giving back, eating and growing food.
that one example

We don't live a reciprocal life with our world as it is. We take resources from the planet and return pollution and destruction, but the planet as a whole is incredibly difficult to harm. Rocks with diameters of miles across have hit the Earth, darkening its skies and burning its surface, and it came back. Whatever we do to it, the world will survive and recover. The question is, will it be a world in which we can or will want to survive? Nobody knows that - I think it depends on us being able to either control our populations or develop the technology to not rely on the planet - basically to live and grow food either in space or on another planet. And that's a LONG way off.

I think we are already in the irreversible process of killing ourselves partly due to technology, but that is just me.

I really don't think its irreversible at this point. We're really, really smart. Mostly we do stupid things with it, but we have immense abilities to fix the problems we cause - its just a question of whether we want to.

Yeah, but the majority of us DON'T want to. Because you said it yourself, as a group humans are STUPID.

What I said is that humans as a group do stupid things. Compared to anything else we know about, we're outstandingly smart. I don't disagree with you in general - we're probably fucked - but we are clever.

kinda

did you run and eat or were u just trying to escape from me? :( ian.

not trying to get in on this deep conversation though.. sorry

I ate and then I ran. Now I am sweaty but back. No frown.

I tried to write something thoughtful but it fizzled.

I'll just say no and no. Historically, everything gets better.

Still at work, Kris?

yeah day is ok now... but i reckon technologhy is definately evil i feel so yukky after sitting in front of a puter all day. The electro-magnetic energy the screen is ommitting is draining all my happy vibes :(

we are doomed, global warming will be our demise, ha
i might be to cynical

i sit infront of two computers all day

honestly does it make you feel horrible? im not often in front of one and i was all day at work (blogging, not working tee hee) n then i did for a while when i came home n i felt horrible when i went to bed! i dont know how you do it!

hey me too!

we are consumed by/with technology right now. but, i'd like to think that all things return to their beginnings; a full circle kinda thing.
we've been consuming more than producing for some time now and when the earth's had enough, it'll snap back

12 hours a day for me.

meditation helps

nanocomputers are gonna eat us all!

i dont care how it happens just as long as i'm around to see it all end i'll be happy

this "inevitable ending" feeling has been around for awhile now.
ain't happening anytime soon

well my kinesiologist friend reckons we are all heading for the 6th dimension where there will be no need for politicians, enough food for all and we can read minds.. hmmmm nice dream or something to look forward to...

mind reading's been around for a long time.
monk's have learned how to live without food. however, they rely on sunlight.

well i'm going to be mighty angry and disapointed when i die, and thats a shame - i wanna see the fire, i wanna see the rage, chaos and disaster full scale before i croak

i'll just have to wait for the next life and cross my fingers

id like to believe in an afterlife, its an optimistic way of living

there is sopouse to be a nano parasite that will eat away sickness, but unfortunatley it ends up eating everything, its some sort of a nano end of the world theory. its intention maybe was to eat up the oil from oil spills in the water. its wierd

from the globe on down to invisible parasites, we're all making a living off something else.
what happens when there's nothing else?
...stay tuned