In 2005, human populations and activity function on levels which border on chaos. At the same time, a few societies continue to zoom towards the ever closer goal of simplification. With the infusion of technology into the mundane details of daily life, the mass storage space of our over evolved brains, space and energy which had been developed to keep track of the ever shifting variables that were the complex means of socialization; this space continues to be supplanted with the dull details of how to run and maintain the very technology which replaces piecemeal the little and large tasks once done by us. As these tasks previously required human action, and thus inevitably human interaction; the elimination of the need for human toil slowly eradicates the once broad array of social interaction into increasingly smaller and smaller circles. Technology even allows for less and less personal interaction within those small circles as well.
With the streamlining ability of machines to uniformly reduce options to a few mere choices, eliminating the small details which result in individuality and style, people likewise continue to form into one indistinguishable mass of decreasing tastes and variations. In such a world, the ultimate goal would be no people at all, since machines only existed to eliminate the doing of things by people, so once everything is accomplished, what then are we to do? The increased pace of living combined with the tedious task of keeping track of machines and not people results in simpler and simpler methods of communication, abbreviated speech and minimal vocabularies. Language, the very thing which sparked the fire of intelligence in our species, is dying. It seems that in less than a mere 100,000 years that humans have been capable of true thought, that we are growing weary of thinking.
