technology!

why is it that it becomes more difficult to keep up with modern technology the older we get?

when i was a child the word was rarely heard, TECHNOLOGY, it did exist but it was far enough away for it not to affect me. now it's round every corner, in school children have lessons in Food Technology, they're probably the same as the lessons we had called Domestic Science but somehow adding the name Technology makes it seem more important on the school curriculum.

everything seems to have technology following it, as if having a suffix of such importance makes the world more grandiose.