It seems like you're saying that Technology has passed the "Second Watershed".

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/IllichTools.html

"Watershed (figurative definition, as used by Illich): A point in the historical process when a particular “tool” creates a quantum shift in society, like the sudden application of gravity feeding water into a terrain basin (literal watershed)."[0]

[0] http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=...