Technology increases the quality of life by giving us more luxury tools like smart phones and ipods and ipads as well as gaming consoles. And making our daily lives much better and gives us different ways of doing things. The biggest setback of rapid development is the fact that we will rush and forget the most important things and make us forget the importance of why we made these tools, for example technology is like cramming for a test it's great to rush and quickly get these tools and knowledge so fast but once we get comfortable we either will self destruct of forget why we did it and relapse and set us back farther than we originally started. It's not my duty to change where we are going with tech because in this long and vast world of opinions the only thing i can say is the things i believe in and hop someone agrees . But the long term effects of say AI (Artificial intelligence) is the fact that we will rely on the tech than actual people making us as a people less credible.  Also making these artificial human and animals to help us not be lonely isn't helping the distance we have as humans and make us lazy by noty having to do simple daily chores. “In this special issue, The Institute takes a look at the work of several IEEE members concentrating on quality-of-life technologies. Member Kimitoshi Yamazaki and his colleagues have developed a life-size humanoid robot that sorts laundry, sweeps floors, and performs other chores. Member Moritz Tenorth is working on a humanoid for cooking and other household tasks. Member Takanori Shibata has developed a furry, robotic seal [see photo] used therapeutically for patients with cognitive and psychological disorders.”(Monaco,2). The book feed has a problem with technology and lazy thinking, Because they instead of reading to gain knowledge and learn, the citizens in the book would basically download knowledge directly to the brain.