This is a great article, by Dr Reville, that discusses the fear of technology and puts forward the idea that to fear technology is irrational because it is of our creation.

I have always said of computers that the problem is they do what i tell them to do not what i want them to do.I have always got incredably impatiant with technology, and that has come from my not understanding.  There is a great line in the piece “Human psychology tends to fear that which it does not control”. I get that. What Reville is saying is that like anything, a car, a TV, an Ipod, understanding of any technology can lead to embracing it. 

What people of my ilk need to come to grips with is that we are i the middle of an information revolution, led by the internet and the technological tools that have developed in its wake. We need to embrace it, understand it nd move with it or it is us who will be left behind.

Fear of technology, of computers needs to be tackled with education, much like all fears, lack of understanding is the danger.