Technology has skyrocketed in the last 30 years. Is it time to slow down and let humanity catch up?

Technological progress moves at its own pace, it's up to us to keep up with it. Carl Sagan worried that in our technology-dependent world, not enough of us actually understand what makes things work and that could get us all into trouble. The August 2003 blackout in northeastern North America was proof that he was onto something.