Our tool-using nature spurred us into high-gear proliferation mode with an emphasis on survival, and what is the right to survive but the means? The initiative?

Technology was an exciting development in human history, but people found out what they could do, and got excited and did it all, but now no one is really excited anymore. Nevertheless, everything has changed and it's hard to imagine existing the way it was before things changed.

A common wish of mine is that somehow there was never any technology developed beyond the level of gears and such, but medical technology was really really advanced. That would sure be fun, I would ride my bicycle down a lovely country road past fields of nice crops and windmills and see the potential of the human quality of life fulfill itself.