It Is Inevitable

I thought one part of The Matrix interestingly related to the media we are talking about in class now and how our world is in the post-literate era and how most humans now rely on media and technology.
In The Matrix, the agents, or machines can jump into any persons body. Because the agents can be anyone, you never really know what you are seeing, or if it is real or a mirage (but who can define what is real now anyways. ?). There is no individuality if the agents can mold each person to take whichever form they choose, and the humans have no say as to whether the agents enter their body or not; the humans cannot fight the technology.
Just like in this digital era, it seems inevitable that eventually no human will be able to live without technology.
It is amazing the capabilities we have now because of technology, but it seems such a sad, sad world we live in that we are so dependant on media that we have a hard time functioning on our own without technology.
I remember report cards back in elementary school, we would get letter grades on how we functioned in the class independantly. Now we would all fail!? This is just one example, and I know that there are people who are still very good with numbers, but you should see how easily people like my Nono (grandpa) put together numbers, just because they didn't have calculators when he was growing up in school. Now I am not even sure if kids these days know what math class is without a calculator...?