Text of a talk entitled "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY" given at the Ban Righ Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, October 5, 2015 addressing the following issues: Where are the realistic threats from Artificial Intelligence? How is information technology and the internet transforming job markets, human psychology, medicine, and education? How does the digital world, expressed as weapons of mass distraction, affect the state of popular culture and the generational divide? When does technology become technopoly?