Is it possible that human life will finally become livable when - the great dialectic of history completing the movement begun at the dawn of civilization - the economy - realizing its total independence from human existence (absurd appendage!) - shrugs us off, and we are left to feast on the crumbs that fall to us from its the unimaginable fury of its cyclone of exchange?

The students admiring their technological learning-tools do not seem to realize that, for these tools, students are fast becoming a formality. Contrary to the usual apocalyptic fantasies, I dream of the day when the machines become advanced enough to leave us alone.