The Fall of the Human Race

I am a believer in science, but that does not make me a Scientologist. I have absolutely no idea why they have piggybacked their cult religion on a word that comes from the Latin scientia, meaning 'knowledge'. But that is a rant for another day.
Science explains a lot of things to us mere mortals, including where we came from and how we got here. That's right folks, I am talking about evolution (creationalists look away now). Evolution has made us what we are today, moulded and transformed by our ancestor's lives and their interaction with nature and their surroundings. For example, hair is not as necessary as it was a few million years ago because we wear clothes and regulate our climate with good, solid shelter and climate control systems. As a result of this persistent change, we grow less hair on our bodies. So you can go ahead and blame the inventor of hats for the beauty of male pattern baldness*.

Evolving as a species over the centuries has turned us into bipedal, intelligent, efficient biological forms. Unfortunately, not everybody received the 'intelligent' upgrade (and some didn't get the bipedal one either) and so the human race has been left with halfwits and lazy fools to drag the rest of us down. This in itself should not be an issue - Darwin's theory of evolution is only managed by natural selection, which would mean that these stupid and useless entities would be wiped out by Mother Nature (or more commonly their own idiocy) and their defective genes removed from the human gene pool. Evolution of man could then continue, with only the strongest genes carrying on.
However, somewhere along the lines we decided that it was all a bit cruel, and jigged around with it ourselves. Now, as a society, we take every precaution to ensure that stupid people don't harm or kill themselves - at the cost of a diluted gene pool. But at least they live a long, oblivious happy life. Now, I have waxed lyrical on this subject before, so I will swiftly move on.
The secondary stage of destroying ourselves is in the use of technology. I am the first to admit that technology is fantastic and I am a subscriber to the many uses of technology and gadgets - from games consoles and computers to robots and inter-stellar flight*. Recently I noticed that technology was becoming an integral part of my life - something you find when your internet access is down, or your computer suffers an untimely BSoD (Windows users) or hardware failure (Windows users + all other users). We really shouldn't rely on things like computers but we do, and in just about everything, too. How many times have things slowed down because of a problem with a computer? Trying to buy something, but the shop has a computer malfunction or their internet connection suddenly goes down? Find yourself at a loss because of a power outage? Reliance on technology is a weakness that we all share.
I sometimes have a brief moment of clarity, when the small, largely inactive part of my brain that controls sanity and realism momentarily awakens and splutters a few disjointed sparks of life. It is during these fleeting moments that I realise how encumbered we are with technology, and that the computer will destroy us. I don't mean a Matrix scenario, where our digital overlords imprison us so they can let us live a seemingly normal life within a computer program - what I mean is the human race will perish as a sentient body. People will lose the ability to remember, to choose, to function. I know I used to be great with phone numbers - I could remember everyone's number and recall it in an instant. These days, my phone is so powerful it not only remembers numbers, addresses and birthdays, but it also opens several forms of instant communication, so I don't even have to see the person. This insight is so frightening, I often have to soothe myself by watching TV or browsing the internet.

*This WILL be in my life.