Grandma's not baking as many cookies as she used to, she's busy surfing the net and dowloading recipes. You don't have to be approaching a mid-life crisis age to realize it's tough to remember how we managed before the fax machine allowed us to send documents instantly. Mostly, it's good news. Now is not the time for anyone to stop relying on strategic thinking and management skills and start relying on technology. Technology does make it a lot easier to do the wrong things faster.
Technology is nothing more than a tool.
Whether or not it is an effective tool depends entirely on the user and the purpose. If you're building something and pick up a blunt nail, you don't go get a bigger hammer. Sure, you'd force the nail in, but you'd probably do a lot of damage in the process. Besides, the purpose is not to drive the nail, the purpose is to attach two boards to each other. I recently attended InfoComm '96, a trade show of information communication technology.