The Distant Technology

As i re-read some Chuck Klosterman, I earmark the passage about how his manimanl brother cant eat the meat of the deer he killed with his bear hands, but can eat any other meat. Admittedly quite removed from the context i think about how technology distances us. How snapping the neck of a downed buck makes the reality of you killing an animal with your bare hands all the more "hands-on." Using a gun adds to the distance between you and reality. i know this isn't cutting edge topic. But, the juxtaposition of reading about the distance technology puts us at in a "book", linked to the efficiency of Google and how that translates, compared to killing a deer with you bear hands, is quite the journey talking about technology. So what is lost in with this new and improved "web" of info? where are we headed if this is the next step?
Is losing a library culture a price we pay for democratizing information and removing barriers in mining statistics. Will we maintain an impetus to get the whole story and not just skim the surface? giving more people access to information might just a swoard for them to fall on if this is not the case.