I was just reading a book when I came upon the following sentence: Human beings are the sexual organs of technology

I was just reading a book that quoted the idea that human beings are simply the sexual organs of technology, and I was absolutely fascinated by it.

The idea was that technology uses humans to continuously invent newer and more complex technology until the technology can reproduce itself and the human becomes obsolete. The human body is in that view nothing more than a way of controlling the environment in order to (from the point of the human) survive, but ultimately control leads to the singularity.

I think that this is very similar to Daniel Quinn's idea that our entire modern agricultural society is nothing more than a doomed way of trying to control our environment. However Quinn argues that we will not succeed in control because it is a vain attempt due to the fact that any control will lead to the need for more control as well as the destruction of the environment which we are trying to control.

So there are basically two scenarios: either the singularity happens and technology manages to reproduce itself or we will fail before that because we self-destroy.

Thoughts?