Communication Technology: Gift or Curse?

On a quest as old as civilization itself, people everywhere have been in a never-ending pursuit of ways to overcome physical shortcomings; like no known animal before it, man has relentlessly sought ways to bend the laws of nature in his favour. First using crude tools to compensate for physical limitations, slowly growing ever more complex as we developed; soon looking for ways to shorten travel and communication times - evolving from foot to horseback to the locomotive and eventually to Mach 3 jets and satellites that are quite literally, 'out of this world'. …