Famed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once noted, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."  An extension of this is that anyone who uses advanced technology with little to no understanding of how it all works will sooner or later think himself godlike — that it is he, and not the very advanced, complicated, and integrated systems, who makes it all possible.  And it is his right by his very existence to have these riches. Incredible advances in everyday technology are shaping modern societies in ways we have yet to understand.  But individuals who begin to think themselves godlike do not bode well for any society, or for that matter the human species. As an example, look at the impact of unearned wealth on the children of the wealthy.  It is quite natural for them to believe that it is they who are somehow special and superior, not simply the output of the "lucky sperm...(Read Full Post)