Technology Mental Strain

Everywhere you look nowadays, a majority of your home devices contain a microchip from your clock to your tooth brush to your coffee/tea maker to whatever other device that you use in your daily life. Archaic ways have evolved to automated machines, which we now rely on so much that we have forgotten the basics of life. Technology has advanced at such an exponential rate that it has surpassed the human's capacity to apprehend the technological developments. But has technology improved our lives or has it burdened us with more trouble? Sure, technology could do things for us with the touch of a button, but what do we do when the device fails to respond? We tend to feel helpless and run around like as if it's the end of the world and then conclude that we need to buy a new one, a better one. Nowadays we tend to skip over troubleshooting because technology has dumb down our creativeness. I remember when our NES game didn't worked so for whatever reason we came up with the idea to blow into the game cartridge or insert the game at an angle and voila, the game worked. How did we come up with such an idea? We used our brains and spread the theory through word of mouth. Nowadays, when your game fail to work, you simply dismiss the fact that you could remedy the situation or browse the internet for a solution, but instead you discard the game in the trash and buy a new one. Technology makes information so readily available and yet, we fail to use our resources to find information only because we are just too damn lazy. Technology also causes a mental strain on the population as well because there are so many different technology out there with their own interface or function that after you learn how to use one device, the come out with a different version with newer advances. Soon technology will take over the world and destroy us, maybe not like Terminator style but something close.