But there's so much technology that we do rely on and can't live without, not while maintaining the kind of lifestyle where we could safely take a walk by the river or look at the clouds. Indoor plumbing, movable type, fire, houses, the glasses some of us need to even see the clouds or the river... the list goes on. If every user on Hubski was born in the 1600's, half of us would be dead right now, almost surely. Are people who huff and puff when they lose their phone for an hour overly entitled? Sure, but that's not so much to do with the technology as it is with the person - I wouldn't argue that we have a very impatient culture, and perhaps part of the roots are that our technology allows us to live in that instant-results kind of way. There is some technology that is reasonably ingrained to the point that we can't imagine living a fulfilling life without it. Why stop at what we have now? Why not allow ourselves to have even more things ingrained into the fabric of our lives?

I'm setting this in a new paragraph not because it's a separate idea, but because I'm going to go off a little far into futurism. Language was a tool that we found the need to build into every single human. People who aren't able to develop language skills are considered severely disabled, and cannot get by in our world. So why would we not say that we can imbue ourselves with more tools for life, to weave into that tapestry of the tools we don't even think about as tools most of the time? It's another step in our evolution as a species - we've escaped the surly bounds of natural selection and are improving the things that we want about ourselves with our knowledge.