There may be more high tech around than you think: It even significantly affects items as seemingly mundane as loudspeakers (though I’ll grant you that speakers with nanotube cones are not in my budget range!)
However, you are absolutely right: The sciences and math are not given enough attention in our present educational system, and there is relatively little “out there” to encourage interest. Even Star Trek in the various series always had an engineer who was often a hero in his own way — and THAT Trek has gone by the wayside, with no real replacement. We live in a world of miracles at every turn, yet few stop to think of or appreciate how those miracles came to be, or how the changing needs of the future will be fulfilled. Every perceptive person I know in the “tech” fields outside of computer software is worried about (as a whole) the next generation’s incompetence, and what it means for the U.S. It used to be that the worry was staying ahead of those coming up!