Smartphones, video games, tablets, apps… the list could go on and on. Our society and economy run, function and communicate via technology. Technology has become so advanced that we now use the "phone" portion of the smartphone far less than we use the device to browse the Web, tap into social media, listen to music and play games.

Technology is changing the way we do just about everything, and by all accounts, we can’t get enough of it — until we start talking about food technology, often referred to as biotechnology, and then our...