At a consumer level that is certainly true for companies selling products!

This is about your ability to use technology, in whichever form, to somehow achieve your objectives.

There are constant trade offs involved though: if you are not aware of those, shiny new technology can actually stand in the way of achieving your objectives.

If your objective is to have a little fun and a new gadget/ site provides that, great...

Technology is very much a double edge sword and can come with many costs that most people are not aware of.
I think the public health hazard of the next decade for instance will be technological distraction addiction.

As with anything, the dose makes the poison.
A bit of social media is great but if it takes over the lives of teenagers to the point that they physically get sick if you take away their mobile something went wrong.

The dose makes the poison.
The problem with the tech sector right now is that they are in a digital arms race to capture human attention.
The money involved is obscene and the lengths technology will be abused to make profit from human attention will be equally obscene.

I consider these principles actually as important as a self-defence course if you live in a rough neighbourhood!

Rather than physical assault to rob your money,

these companies are using technology

to mentally assault you to rob your attention...

Technology is a great slave but a terrible master...