changing our lives irrevocably?

Last night, I went to the Apple store on West 14th Street, where my husband purchased a new iMac with a 24-inch screen and numerous other things that I can't begin to understand. He also bought us an Airport Extreme, which allows all three of our computers to go wireless (until now, we've been using a cable). When we got home, he announced that our lives are forever changed. FOREVER CHANGED? How is that, exactly? I shivered at the thought. As far as I could tell, I was still the same person as two hours before. As someone who strives (many times unsuccessfully) to be eco-conscious, I was more concerned (okay, solely concerned) with how much energy this computer would sap from the power grid. But then he started to describe how I can sit in bed and read email now, as I eat my pancakes for breakfast in the morning. Convenience! Which means I won't be in the living room, where I am better able to see the sun shining down. Less connection to the natural world! And then I realized that he could very well be correct. Unfortunately, the more I enter into the technological world, the more challenging it becomes to relate back to the natural world. I need to concern myself with connecting to that which makes me feel more human - that is, personal human-to-human contact and a connection of my senses to the physical (natural) world around me. It is a bit frightening, realizing just how much we are affected by technology, and as we go deeper and deeper into this realm, I can only hope that we will enter a state of efficiency with the technology where we can seamlessly interface with it and it frees us enough so we look back to the earth.