Anything in a car that gets between me and the road and my engine freaks me out. I don't even like traction control that much, but I understand it's needed in a car with 300+ hp. Power Steering I get, and that one doesn't bother me. My blazer would be impossible without it.
On to the more computery aspect.
As the internet gets faster and more reliable we see things like the Chrome books; laptops that do nothing but connect to the internet via google. This scares me more than the active systems of a car. Additionally we see more half finished products come out with plans to update them later, so people who can't afford a good internet connection get hosed when something like fallout las vegas comes out.
Now most youngsters are going to be growing up with the internet, a place where you can speak your mind anonymously. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Good because we have people who are more comfortable with themselves because they now know of others with similar interests and such. Bad because they get used to the anonymity and say these things in the real world, and then have to deal with real world consequences. Think about it; that troll you met on the forum the other day thinks he can get away with calling people a (horrible racial slur) and no one can do squat. At which point they find his body in a gutter.
We also have the issue of social skills
I have seen them improve dramatically thanks to online interaction, i have also seen them become far worse, personally. When I was at my first college I spent most of my time online, communicating to people via steam and facebook. This eventually led to an angry out burst at a friends dad over a name, and a good bit of drama all around. As for the improvement I had a friend in high school who was the definition of nerd. He is still a nerd, but he's a nerd with social skills.
Let's see what other problems does tech cause.. Ah! Companies love to push new toys.
Everybody wants to push out 3D which is rubish, you need glasses and stupid amounts of money for any 3d tv, as for the 3ds, it can't be up-scaled and is very limited. But people buy it because the commercials say it the new thing, and the neighbors down the street have it. We had this same problem with video game graphics for a while, and still do although it's slowed down. Everybody wanted to have each blade of grass be realistically rendered with 36x antialaising and blah blah blah. The sad part is that Half Life 2 is about as good as we need. High level of model and texture detail with plenty of graphics options to boost the look. With maxed out settings it looks great and it was released 6 years ago. Where as with the Call of duty series you have programmers just throwing the power of your pc at the graphics in the hopes of making it look better. What they achieve is coming very close to that Uncanny Valley where the graphics look just enough like a picture to make it creepy. Instead we could be using this power for bigger maps and better npcs more fun game mechanics like the portal gun. Additionally it would bring production costs down so you can get a bigger budget for writing, art and overall development.
Smart Phones and Tablets
These go right along with the Chrome books, they get you plugged in to the internet to the point at which if the internet goes you are basically useless. I actually own an IPad and it's very addicting but the second my router died I dropped it for my laptop. And while I don't have a smart phone I can tell you they are no replacement for a laptop and the majority that I've seen try and do everything and wind up doing it all poorly.
