We are so pampered, and so quick to complain about things that our forefathers easily took in stride. I watched a video today of someone lighting the headlight and brakelight on a motorcycle that is over a century old (they used to have gas burning lights back then). The light was smoking and even caught the back part of the light on fire for a couple seconds and had to be blown out. Separately, there is an advertisement that I once saw for the "new gas powered headlights" when they first came out and it amazed people that it was even possible. Imagine doing that every time you want to drive at night. Today, most people do not even know how to change out their electrical headlights.
Someone that I know recently lost his cell phone and commented about it like his life was basically over; he admitted he hated being like this. We have really come a long way. Many things that they could tolerate a century ago would kill us today. Technology is a blessing when it helps us; it is a curse when it weakens us. It is not really the technology itself, but rather how we use it, and how dependent we become upon it. Easier might be more convenient, but that does not mean that it is better for us.
How do we deal with our technology? Does it serve us, or do we serve it? If we really are dependent on it, then we have allowed it to become our master to a certain degree. We are not talking about food, or air--those things that God has made us dependent on--but rather things that we have chosen to make ourselves dependent on. Wherever you are at, whatever you are doing, it might be a good time to do a personal inventory. Ask yourself, "what am I dependent on" and seek to answer it honestly. It does not even need to be technology. No matter what it is, if it is controlling you beyond what our faith allows, it is wrong.