This resonates with me. Two different people at a job dubbed me "The Technological Luddite" because of, among other things, my lack of a cell phone, the absence of a Facebook page, pointing out where the "all you have to do is ..." algorithms break, and so on.<p>I will admit it, I prefer the downslope of the Hype Cycle. I choose boring technology. At the end of the day, I am trying to solve problems, and playing with new stuff often doesn't pay out for solving those problems.<p>I related this once on another site: we had this process that was heavily manual and the people performing the task would want this part at the end automated, or maybe a reminder email at the end, or some instructions here ... can we just <i>do</i> that part by computer? Bit by bit, the process maxed out on automation.<p>And then the people who asked for the automation were fired and replaced with minimum wage intern types. Also, the final product was inferior but hey ...<p>I think technology <i>can</i> be marvelous but we often do stupid things with it, ending up in unemployment and some crap results, like "American cheese."