As technology advances, personal freedom diminishes. On one side of the chip, technology enhances one's quality of life. Work reduces while productivity expands, entertainment increasingly satisfies all conceivable desires, education becomes effortless with the exponential proliferation of immediate information, and health care is refined and concurrently diminished with the development of more effective medicine and machines. On the other side of the chip, however, the side that we rarely observe because of all the 'magic' that is typically associated with perceiving life from the microscopic vantage point of technological advancement as reflected by the aforementioned benefits and others, personal freedom diminishes. Technology accelerates science and science endows our egos with the glittering promise of deeper and deeper strata of precise conceptualizations and methodologies to guide our lives and to prepare for the eventuality of other lives and, by extrapolation, our accelerated evolution into homo sapiens sapiens sapiens....

Coupling the loss of personal freedom with the endowment of promise leads to two fates, the philosophy of determinism and the loss of religion. The question becomes, "How do humans survive without freedom?"

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