The downsides aren't confined to social media, which has been in the eye of the storm recently. People are talking about the pernicious effects of personal information concentrated in the hands of a few companies, about robots taking human jobs and about technology addiction.
Ten years after the release of the first iPhone, we're over the initial wonder of it all and are beginning to grapple with how smartphones affect our communities, our personal safety and basic human interaction.
If more people begin to focus on the drawbacks of technology, it could have lasting consequences for the economy and for tech companies' bottom lines.