Heh, well, this could very easily turn into a case of 'what have the Romans ever done for us?'

I suppose the problem not so much that it filters down, but that to become over-dependent on technology, to rely on weight loss tablets and operations, rather than simply dieting (at the very least, in non-genetic cases), to rely on home delivery of your Internet ordered groceries, to expect the TV or Computer to provide entertainment at any time...
All those inventions are wonderful things, Surgery, Medicine, the Internet etc, but they are tools, and becoming dependent on them is already starting backfire in ways we didn't suspect, the decreasing effectiveness of anti-biotics, increases in Morbid obesity, even mental 'addictions' such as MMO's and Chat Rooms, it's all symbols of our over-dependence on the very technologies that are supposed to be nothing more than a tool to augment our own natural toolbox.
It's not Science that is at fault, it is society that is to blame, the Internet was viewed as a vast online library. It says a great deal about humanity that it ended up as a vast online Porn shop. Technology is great. People, not so great.