This essay, dear reader, is a documented account of a wealth of concerns that at different times have assailed me about the future of technology and other related issues. It is a literary work, not a scientific one, since throughout my statements, you will find no effort to dictate any theorem to science; neither is it my intention to raise scientific disquisitions of any kind for those who may wish to read it. I only present an overview and some working hypotheses that are more the product of my observations of the technological environment than formal definitions of research hypotheses. My purpose is to document and interpret, but since it is a documented account, I warn that all the documentation I refer to has the characteristic of presenting elements of popularization and not of scientific elaboration; I use journalistic news, Internet documents and popular books, all in the same plane of simple and easy information; for this reason the corpus of my work is closer to a journalistic piece than to a dissertation based on concrete aspects of physics or mathematics.