How important is technology?

Some may have many bad things to say about technology, how it is not so gender neutral or portrays a superficial life, however we cannot dismiss that technology in many ways has helped us as humans accomplish many things that otherwise may not of been possible.

Take this example for instance: I am in the car with my friend, she’s driving, she happens to wear prescribed glasses, she cannot see anything 1 metre away without them on, this technology helps her in more ways then she can imagine, we could say that they improve her way of living.Take my other friend who wears hearing aids every day, so advanced that she can hear the slightest patter, I could list many examples of the ways in which technology has advanced our way of living however everything good has to have some disadvantages right?

No matter how much we would love to praise technology the reality is that technology also has its downsides, the world as we know it in many ways (apart from the Amish of course) relies on technology so if for some reason there was no technology left on this earth and we went back to our caveman days would we be able to find the same joys in a stick and stone as opposed to an iphone, playstation or even a laptop? So are we becoming too dependent on technology or are we just using technology to help improve our way of life?