The book’s primary focus is on the relationship between humanity and technology. What are the positives of that relationship? What are the negatives?

The question is a very broad one, and as the book begins, the author’s perspective on the human/technology relationship is likewise very broad. This question asks the reader to enter into consideration of that relationship in similar, broad strokes terms, in preparation for the deeper considerations that follow of both technology’s positives and its negatives.

What does the author mean when he says, in the subtitle to Chapter 1, that “the end of history has been postponed” (11)? How do the ideas and incidents he references in relation to this comment suggest that history has not, in fact, come to an end?

As the author portrays it, the initial comment was made because commentators believed that all the upheavals and difficulties and...