Will Technology drive us all insane?

I think the recent technologies are really fascinating, they evolve so quickly they're quite entertaining in the way there's always something to learn about. But at the same time, i can find it a bit hard to catch up with all of them and understand what each one can offer me better than the next one.

People of my kind - some say the geeks - have seen the emergence of a restless social online population, using Twitter over the world to join the biggest community online ever. Everybody without discrimination is connected every day to communicate with each other about pretty much anything. The popularity of this new channel already led over people's privacy. 'Lifestreaming' became part of their lifestyle. "Everybody's lets everybody else know what they've been up to, no matter what it it". And i have to admit to be honest that I became myself one of them... Believe it or not, Lance Amstrong and of Shaquille O'Neal are my 'friends' and I can know what they're up to everyday... Blogging is already too slow requiring too much content. Twitter is preferred because its format enables quicker communications. Consumers changed their way of communicating and prefer quick messaging to long blog posts. They talk about updates rather than messages. A good article in SMH showcased well, why technology has been driving consumers' behaviors, which leads to the question: will technology ever be at its edge?

It is scary to imagine that technology might never be at its edge. It implies that people will always be changing the way they communicate to each other, the way they behave and the way they live, to an extent...