At what point does too much become 'too' much?

"The Borg," villains in TV's "Star Trek" series, "assimilate" species by stealing their independent intelligence and subverting their natural functions with hi-tech implants. They present a morality lesson on man's vain desire to control the world and glorify his own puny abilities: The technology becomes master and man the slave.

Something like that happened to us on the Jones job.