Technology: good or bad?

Its hard to believe with all the help that we get from technology that it could be bad for us.  Technology helps hundreds of people everyday.  It can help deaf people hear and lame people walk, it also place the world at the finger tips of out students; giving them the ability to learn about any thing they want and form their own options of the world with out just relying on their parents.  Technology is every where we now live in a world were it is hard to avoid it.   In an article for the New York Times about the dark side of technology Barnaby J. Feder states: "the catch is that any technology powerful enough to improve life radically is also capable of abuse and prone to serious, unanticipated side effects.  We have plenty of examples of this in our everyday society, take nuclear energy for example; was discovered in 1896 and in 1945 was used to cause mass destruction in Japan, and is now used to create energy for everyday use.  In their book, technoStress: Coping with technology @ Work @ Home @ Play, Michelle M. Weil, Ph.D. and Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D. assert that we count on out machines to do so much that when something goes wrong with our technology we are thrown into a tailspin.  This point was proven on Piedmont campus this past weekend when the internet went down and people couldn't figure out how to do their homework.  The internet is a wonderful tool that helps us connect to any thing in a heart beat until it goes down.  We have forgotten the value of books and how to use them.  We are so used to everything being at our finger tips that we don't want to have to work to find information any more.  While many of the new developments in technology excite me, stem cell research, gene analysis, the implications and possibilities for evil scare me and leave me wondering what kind of world my children will be living in.