Price of Tech

Tech is a tricky two-edged sword...
it bites with ease  
same as it cuts...  
 
It teases with treats...
then leads us astray  
makes everything faster and better.
 
it's painful to see... how easily  
we give in to the slavish tendency
to fall beneath its sway...  
 
to blithely ...discard all those skills...  
we might need someday…  
(like reading and writing and maths)
to live once again in-de-pen-dent-ly...
 
         ...of technology...
 
You know...?
     when the power goes, Ppft! again…
          ...as it has in the past...