Technology's Usefulness

Sometimes I wonder if technology has reached the limit of its usefulness -- and some other times I plain think we need to get rid of much of it! I blame it all on the FAX machine, its introduction beginning the "instant gratification" or "instant results" mentality that seems to govern our daily life. Now, hackers have managed to invade people's lives through their cell phones. Please visit the News Tribune page explaining the horrors that these people are being subjected to by criminals using technology to harass and threaten innocent citizens. What have we done to ourselves with all this technology? We are not too far from exceeding the limits of reasonable expectations and turn the corner so that technology will become useless thanks to hackers, phishers, and spammers.