Technology Solves everything

I would like to focus this blog on things that I feel are "true". However, a lot of my life is composed of things that I don't know if they are really all that true--I have doubts ya know? One of those doubts is about technology.
In philosophy and sociology and...etc etc. There is a theory that no matter what problem we have technology can fix it--well, not just technology, more like knowledge in general, because it includes humanitarian advances as well.

The theory is most applicable when you're talking about problems that threaten society: take for instance that people are getting fatter and more unhealthy in America so the idea is that eventually they'll find a pill or a machine or something else that you can purchase to become healthy. --it makes a hard problem into an easy problem really because either way you need money to buy the pill and if you couldn't afford it you could always do it the old fashion way.
Take another example: there is a theory that pollution is ruining the earth (not 100% provable in my mind as I can see that it's not as simple as that), there are people out there under the assumption that what we pollute right now doesn't necessarily matter because eventually technology will fix the problem and so if we have to control our pollution output it is merely because we need to give ourselves some time to allow technology to solve the problem.

I can see a lot of problems to this theory though I think generally it is true: eventually we'll develop some piece of technology to handle every problem we face from the medical field to the prison system.

In either case, one thing I do know is that we are advancing at an alarming rate in our development of new things--over the last 10 years that I can remember, we went from having computers that were the size of today's microwaves to the small enough to fit in your hand.
My cell phone is more powerful than the computer I had when I was 10...and possibly when I was 14 too. And I feel like that is saying something considering my family used to stay up to date on our computers.--I had my own computer when I was 6 years old--boy was I spoiled, but because of that I was able to stay up to date on the latest technological ergonomics--using computers has gotten a lot more complex than it was back then however.
I find it difficult to figure out problems with devices that come in the latest "generation" of the device if I failed to get the generation just right before it. If for whatever reason (usually cost) I didn't get the last of a product then just by skipping a generation of the device I have to waste some time trying to figure out the latest. --now apply what I just said to someone who comes from a generation older than I am age wise, it must be very difficult for them because they usually skip about 20 generations and have to start from square one.
Such is the case with my mother's new smart phone--looks like I'll have to get out the whiteboard so I can guide her through using the device.
C'est le vie. My life anyway...