What aspects of technology do you wish were never invented? Why?

Question

What aspects of technology do you wish were never invented? Why?

Answer 1

Text messaging and sometimes email.  

I have friends that, if I call them on their cell phone they won't answer, but if I text them they will ALWAYS hit me right back.

Sometimes I just want to talk...ya know?

Answer 2

All of them. We've lost all our primitive roots. Well, really just TV and Internet, and of course cell phones. They've given us excuses for actually seeing someone.

Answer 3

while I would like to take away people's ability to communicate instantly in so many ways thus making them more self-reliant, I don't want to lose my cable TV so it's kinda a catch-22 in the end.

Answer 4

Any technology that uses oil.

The automobile has spawned the suburbs and has paved our land and torn apart communities.

Most plastic goes straight to a landfill where it will lay for a period of time exceeding human history.

Television is another baddie, but I feel it can be a good thing.  It's way overdone now, but that's the peoples' fault.