Technology doesn't make your life easy, it makes it more complicated, and the more complex something is the more ways for it to fail and malfunction and because you don't fully understand it, the less of a chance for you to be able to fix it by yourself or maintain it.
And whit this added complexity comes a lot of stress in to your life. Everything has a cost and a benefit, and the benefit of technology is that it allows people to do things that are impossible without it, like have a pleasantly cool room in the middle of the summer, communicate over long distance, fly etc. but all this comes at the cost of making your life more complex and at the same time more stressful.
I am far from being against technology, I actually love it it opens so many doors and can bring so much potential in to someones life, but I am also starting to understand the Amish.
Simplifying your life by using mostly low tech technology is a major way to reduce stress in to your life.
Modern human are almost completely removed from nature, the more technology we adopted in to our life the bigger that distance become, which made us really bad animals. Not animals in the sense of uncivilized as much as weak, sick and unhappy.
We are like animals in captivity, we get all the problems that animals at the zoo get, diseases that don't exist in nature, reduced life spans, disrupted and bizarre reproductive and socialization patterns. The only difference between animals at the zoo and modern humans is that we are not hold in by electrified fences or force, we are trapped by the convenience and pleasure that technology brings.
The Pandora's box is already opened, there is no way back, technology is indispensable it would be hard to function in most places without it. But that doesn't mean that there are no ways to manage it better.
In the case of technology more is not always better, having the latest gadgets very rarely adds anything major to your life. Like for example smartphones, the only thing that my smartphone did to me is made me stay in bed longer, added a couple of work hours to my day and made me less social. Overall the negative effects that it had on me are way bigger than the positive, so I got ride of it. Which was an oddly liberating experience.
