Keeping Up with Technology

The technological advances produced everyday is amazing and further drenches today's society in what people in the past couldn't even fathom.  When so much technology is being invented, however, how can we keep up?  Take the iPad, for example, an overgrown iPod Touch.  The orignial Wi-Fi iPad was released in the U.S. on April 3, 2010, while the Wi-Fi iPad 2 was released March 11, 2011.  Less than a year later, possibly the most advanced piece of technology for the general public had just gotten upgraded.  These fast releases make it almost impossible to keep up with the latest technology.  What are your thoughts on such rapid technological advances?