Stuff like that scares me. I yearn to be tech free before I die. Some day I will throw away everything electronic and move to a cabin in the woods. When my pot bellied stove emits less heat- I will be prompted "wirelessly" to add wood.
Metal is tech.
Honestly, EVERYTHING not scooped up directly and shoved in your mouth is technology. Some tech is more reliable than other tech, but nothing is without its draw backs.
I prefer lowest tech solutions. This approach is sometimes "a pen and paper" (like when I go to Defcon), and sometimes is "Geographically dispersed high availability server cluster, with delta block replicated backend SANs." You use the most reliable tech possible to do what you want to do. A rule of thumb is lowest tech, simplest processes, minimal (ideally no) interaction and fewest moving parts. It is just a rule of thumb, and sometimes simplest/lowest/minimal/fewest is not the best.
Technology does not have to be cumbersome, unreliable, etc.
