It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.