Sixth Sense?

Just watched a video re a product in the works called "The Sixth Sense." While truly amazing, I actually find it somewhat disturbing and ironic. (www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html)

Ironic in the sense that, it's called "Sixth Sense" but is the type of product/technology that is going to lead to humans losing their intuition and their developed, God-given natural senses. We'll begin to depend on technology and machinery to the point that our real senses and intuition go by the wayside. So, rather than it being a "Sixth Sense," it will be our only sense.

Think about the humans in "Wall-e" -- they were completely dependent upon technology to do everything for them, to make every decision for them. To the point where they didn't trust their own decisions and could not think for themselves. They weren't living life, they, in essence, had become the "machines." Or, slaves to the machines.

Every time I read or see something about new technology that sounds like it will lead to human dependence on machine rather than self, God, etc., I'm reminded of Stephen Vincent Benet's poem, "Nightmare Number Three" (www.brewerb.com/BREWERBLOB/Nightmare_Number_Three.html). Written in 1935, it presents a world in which the machines Man has come to depend on take over. No one saw it coming but they should have. How prophetic.

Does anyone ever stop to think, "Are we building a technological Tower of Babel?"

I also wonder which came first. Meaning, have we really, truly ever invented anything or have we just taken ideas from long-ago Sci-Fi movies, books, stories that are now made possible due to technological advancement? What would we invent if we had not ever been influenced by those stories, those "literary inventions?"

The thing that bothers me most about the video/product that started this electronic soap box is the end statement on the video -- "Who knows, maybe in another 10 years we'll be here with the ultimate Sixth Sense brain implant..."

I for one will not be waiting in line for that.