@Demo318 We live in interesting times for technology.

I was born in the early 80s, so I had a very 'analogue' childhood, but my teen years were starting the digital age. I was just starting high school when my family and my friends' families got a 'family computer'.

My children will grow up more connected to distant peoples and cultures and the unique emergent culture of the internet.

And the technology isn't stopping- the march of progress goes ever forward.

Are we losing something of ourselves in the technological revolution?

Maybe. Definitely maybe.

This idea that we're losing something of ourselves with the increase in technology isn't new, though. I can imagine there being strife between the first peoples to go from a hunter-gatherer society to one more agrarian.

But, I'd still classify the current change of things into an evolution of the human animal, and the society therein. We're looking at the first truly global societies- where people from almost anywhere can connect to almost anyone in a completely different place in real time.

That, to me, is mind blowing. Just completely batshit insane. Wow.

Still, that question remains- Are we losing ourselves?

Maybe.