Here's a TED video which, despite a few quibbles, I think will be of interest to many on this list.<br><br><<a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/19">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/19</a>>
<br><br>"Kevin Kelly uses evolutionary theory to discuss the purpose and value
of technology. By asking, "What does technology want?" he shows that
its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution
of life. Using a discipline-hopping range of examples -- from exotic
flora to the Big Bang, from the Amish to Mozart -- Kelly not only draws
an encompassing picture of humans and machines evolving, but discovers,
while he's at it, a moral assignment for everyone in his audience."<br><br>- Jef<br>