"You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God," he quipped.

I saw a quote once and it went something like this: "Genius in the future will not be determined by what you know but by if you can find it."

I can see part of his point about the "loss of control"...just try and take an X-Box away from a teen. It will only get worse as technology encroaches more and more but there is the flip side that some technology frees us up to do other things.