A World without Consequences

Imagine a life with a "delete" button. Wouldn't that be awesome to hide all your past indiscretions? Then you can live without feeling the consequences of making any mistakes. California has just passed a law that does just that: by 2015, all sites that are gears toward minors, must have a "delete" button, which will erase all the data that they have posted*. No more will that drunken bachelor/bachelorette party haunt them.
But what lesson is this principle teaching the youth? We cannot delete our physical past as easily. The age that they are allowed online unsupervised, should be the age that they learn about consequences, and about how they cannot post anything that they don't want everyone to see. I fear too many people have missed this lesson.

*http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57604301-83/california-gives-teens-an-eraser-button-to-hide-online-skeletons/

Remember when people would return from work with bloodied hands and only a few cents to show for it? People asked for technology to help save them from that inevitable fate and now, some resent technology for taking away jobs. Having technology elevates the menial laborers to be forced to become something more, to improve instead of obey. This is what will drive our civilization into the future where robots become more than just machines; they become part of who we are. Many are apprehensive toward this new future, saying that machines will control us - the only way that a machine can control us, is if we tell it to control us. We should embrace our future with machines, because technology is only beginning to scratch the surface of ways that it can improve our lives.