Surviving With High Tech

IS IT POSSIBLE for a very large number of highly intelligent beings to live harmoniously together for a long period of time with highly advanced technology? It seems doubtful. We've never tried it before, yet. Only now are we beginning to, and the early results do not look promising. Computers, for instance, do not seem to be contributing anything to human peace and harmony. Are they? Do they? Personally, my communication with people now is no better than it was in the nineteen sixties, maybe not as good. There was more face to face communication then, and that, ultimately, is the best kind. Sometimes it seems as if all our electronic communication devices impede, rather than improve, human understanding, harmony, togetherness, love, and all that good stuff. When Kirk and Spock used their communicators fifty years ago on television, I was convinced that if the day ever came when we all had one of those wonderful things, a communication device in pocket, all would be well, all problems on earth would be solved, and we would have great communication, and great everything else. I have no idea, exactly, how I came to believe this, but believe it I did. Maybe being twelve years old had something to do with it. Or maybe I had such abiding faith in technology that I assumed that between the years 1967 and 2017 technology would solve all problems, and make our lives perfect. And yes, I was among those who thought I would be "driving" a flying car soon, say, by nineteen eighty. Hell, everybody back then believed that. It turned out, I was wrong. Maybe all through the galaxy life evolves on millions of planets, reaches a certain technological level, maybe about like we have now - and then self destructs. Or, maybe we'll make it yet. If we can, anybody can.