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It is important to distinguish who the 'we' is in all this. While 'we' in the generally western world continue to advance technologically at an exponential pace there are those places, where i'd say the majority of humankind lives, which remain cautiously rooted with a certain slow-growing level of technology. It will be interesting in our liftetime to examine how this disparity evolves and if it will be the source of some new kind of some yet un-concieved tension.
In those other parts of the world it seems technology is increasingly spread through commercial means by businesses who see a market there. For example many places in rural african have never seen a rotary or landline telephone yet have 'skipped' right to cell phones because telecommunication companiues can make a buck setting them up cheaply and then all of a sudden a village chief in a grass skirt is holding his first cell phone talking to other cheifs 5 mule ride days away.
The globalization of technological advancement will proceed increasingly unequally and we should be wary of that.
