As always dear friend , your poetry always give food for thought
I was just having a conversation only 2 days ago with a friend of mine and we were discussing the same topic :-))
Yes ,indeed , there are many areas of modern living where technology has improved the quality of people's lives ....
but in many aspects of society and life in general , it may also have eroded many social skills . There are many pro's and con's -and as you rightly say ,a lot depends on the person behind the computer / machine etc. A subject matter for huge and wide reaching debate for sure ! Well done dear Socrates on your thought provoking piece!
Warm wishes always -Fiona

Hello Socrates
technology has no time, even the use of simple tools by primitive man was technology ,so I think your verses allude to the concept of free will, then I will express my opinion of the idea of human free will, we know the human nature, but not the intrinsic essence ,we do not know the origin of it..if human existence goes through pre-established laws.. then where is the free will? What is the meaning of human self-determination ? our thinking, our ability to produce arguments , to make choices such as.. going to a place rather than another ,to love one person rather than another, are perhaps the product of synaptic impulses between neurons content in our brain ? If there was free will, we should be able to choose to "produce" certain synapses rather than others , but.. to make a choice we have to produce other impulses that create the subsequent pulses , and so on.. ad vitam aeternam ..is the human knowledge only the result of energetic impulses and chemical reactions between the elementary components we are made.............................. or................................................................does God exists ?

Here I immediately recall a quote about the fact that it is better to teach a person how to catch a fish than to give him a fish.