Terminator 1, 2, 3 (and 4. There was a 4, right?) have most people worried technology will takeover. Bots and digital trolls will run our homes, streets, and workspaces. And there will be this huge war between humans and machines. This will not be the case. Doomsday is not near. Technology is here to help not destroy.

People view technology in the wrong light. Technology is a means to provide us humans with better tools. Fire was technology. The wheel was technology. Light bulbs. The printing press. The automobile. Etc., etc., etc. There’s not enough lines on this publishing platform to cite all the technological advances that have improved our existence. And that’s the point.

Technology means nothing if it can not improve our daily lives. Not only must tech improve it, it must improve it seamlessly. Technology is not suppose to get in the way. It should be a supporting cast member of this big play we’re all in—which is complicated enough. Adding another complicated layer makes little sense.

What does makes sense, however, is the recent conversation about user experience. The focal point of all the talk: How does a person feel when using a new product, a new technology? On larger level, this experience is not just about a particular user interacting with a particular technology. It’s about the universal user, the big ‘U’, as in User, and how technology affects universal experience, as in Experience. The smart minds, if they are worth any weight—whether in gold or bitcoins—will figure out a way to make technology less scary for those who don’t live in Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, Silicon Beach—which actually seems pretty fitting when we consider tons of people in Southern CA walking around with silicon in their bodies. It’s not enough for the tech darlings to get it. We all must get it. We are all a part of the User. We are all a part of the Experience.

Like technology before us, we all must benefit from it. Any new technology needs to keep that as the end point. When people see that, then doomsday will fade. The horizon will be much brighter. The horizon will be lit with bots that they actually understand and that actually add value to daily living. That make existence better than it was the day before.