Lots of people in the past have felt the way you do, Indie, it does seem lot's harder with change going on ever faster and faster. But the fears just change from one thing to another; I remember in the 1960's not being part of the "in crowd" :-) and peace, love, hippies, etc. and having my college overrun by National Guard and being tear-gassed just for being on the way to/from the dining hall, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was a lot more scary to me than ignoring technology is now.

I was a computer professional when I worked so not being up on twittering, texting (my phone doesn't really do texting or have a camera even) and all the new graphics and things happening on computers makes me feel "dumb" but that's always been the case; there are always things we don't understand or aren't part of; wait until you get old enough to stop listening to "music" and it flows by you so you turn on a station you use to like and have no clue and don't like anything at all they're playing.

I would join a group like the Society for Creative Anacronism: http://www.sca.org/

or read about the Luddites and Neo-Luddites: http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/cr...13/neolud.html (the Luddites broke up printing presses when they were first invented; can you imagine going from a world of no books to books?)