Do you think we'll ever ascend, or will our technology transcend us?

I've recently read an article about how it all starts with human-to-human interaction, which is what happens now. We go to the grocer and make our purchases to human cashiers, we go to school and learn from human teachers. Then, human-to-machine, which is also occuring, where we design robots and give them artificial intelligence. From then, its machine-to-human. We can already see the beginning stages of this, where we start to implement online learning portals (though the content is created by humans). Children and adults alike all log on to the internet and learn from its resources. Soon, this may develop into robots that teach us. And finally, machine-to-machine, cutting off the human contact.