If they were, they would be unbelievably successful. If I can create that passion in someone, then my job is done. It doesn't matter if I'm talking to tired executives or school kids. Fact is, if they get excited about the future, they're going to do something different. In a celebrated essay in Wired recently, Sun Microsystems chief scientist Bill Joy cautioned people against developing technology without first considering the implications.
All technologies are neutral.
It's what we do with them that make them positive or negative. If in 1970 someone said to you that by 2000 you would have a computer at home you would have laughed. A computer back then was bigger than your home, it cost more than your home and you wouldn't have known what to do with it. The thing that has made mankind the dominant animal on this planet is innovation with tools, with technology. That's the only thing that really differentiates us from any other life form on Earth.