The purpose of the "Pedestrian Paragraph"

I believe that the authors main purpose for writing this story was to show how the world has evolved into a technology based environment. I also think that the author wanted to show how all this new technology can effect our society. New technology I think has improved our world, and I think what the author is trying to exprees is that who's to say that 50 years from now this new technology won't skrew up our entire exisistance forever.