If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.