This topic, of whether our computer dominated world will bring us down was discussed recently at Survivopedia.com, an interesting site with a variety of survivalist and technological articles, well worth having a look. The idea of computers getting out of control was a stable of sci fi literature and films, with the Terminator series probably being the most famous. The message in those movies was that technology, through human hubris would get out of control, and once it became self-aware, all bets are of what it will do, most likely not being biologically based it will see biological organisms tasking up too much room, and thus seek to eliminate them. That day is not here yet, but recently an AI experiments by Facebook, led, supposedly to the computers developing heir own language, which the humans did not understand, so the experiment was shut down.
