Alan Kay is credited with what is to my mind the definitive statement on how we related to technological change. Wikiquote tells us that it was at a Hong Kong press conference in the late 1980's that Kay stated:
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.To my mind the problem isn't that we can't adjust to new technologies, but that we refuse to understand that the technologies that we grew up with really are technologies, and that somewhere along the line they were new, and that people had to adjust to them. When we refuse to understand this we assume that others never encountered the difficulty of adjusting. Placing ourselves in the position of seeing an accepted (by us) technology as new and novel is a good way of getting some perspective. Often this is done comically, but that shouldn't prevent us from realizing how serious this is.