We live in an era of contradictions. At some level or another we all claim that we don't like technology, and yet none of us can live without it. All we have to do is take a walk through a cemetery to be able to guess when penicillin came along. We notice that all of a sudden after a certain year we don't see nearly as many children's graves. It is this love, hate relationship with technology that tugs at us constantly.
Technology is such an intricate part of our lives.
We live caught in the contradiction, like a giant spider web. We want to reap the benefits of technology, but most of us have to be dragged kicking and screaming into learning anything about it. It's sort of like the professor who spends an hour teaching his students existentialism. He painstakingly tells them that there is no door to the classroom. It is a dream.