This lecture was based on co-evolution and homeostasis. If you change one piece of an equilibrium situation, then you change the evolutionary balance. This reminded me of an episode of The Simpsons when Homer was traveling in time and everytime he stepped on a bug or squashed a plant, he would return to present time to some form of defect. After awhile of fouling up situations in order to correct what he did, Homer finally snapped. Instead of not touching anything in the past, he destroyed EVERYTHING. That eventually ended in things being normal minus the fact that his family ate with their tongues like frogs catching flying insects.
There was also a mention of how Richard Feyman worked to shrink a whole series of Encyclopedia Brittanica as well as Robert Drexler building robots to build smaller robots.
We are witnessing the miniaturization by the way cell phones get smaller and smaller. As well as the new Netbook computers. There are actually computer technicians who make circuit boards and embed their own graphic images and words within the micro-circuitry of the hardware.
We take for granted of just what technology is and what it contributes to society.
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