I just don't see technology as savior, rather than impartial expression of our own character.
Yes, many in relatively advanced countries live lives of relative ease, compared to their forebearers, but then how many have simply become overweight consumers, in that relative excess?
I think we need to do a much better, more hardheaded job of understanding our situation, than just feeding our appetites and egos.
Consider our physiology evolved as tree dwelling creatures. Consequently our eyes are set close together, in order to effectively judge distances, as opposed to land based prey animals, with wide set eyes, necessary for spatial awareness of danger and little use for distracted thinking.
While our appendages are evolved for grasping.
So is our linear, object oriented view of the world entirely objective, or is it far more subjective than is appreciated?
Our technology seems as likely to magnify our delusions, as to peer through them.
Consider our current supreme diety is money, yet the reality is that it is an accounting device that enables large societies, but the medium has become the message.
The reason is because of the feedback loop we have with our immediate surroundings, where it represents acquisition, rather than any deep understanding of the network it works within.
If we are to become one with our technology, what pleasures will that give us, or will it just make us better terminators?
This is why that linear projecting has to take into account the larger reality in which it projects, if it wants to have any real success. It would be like playing chess by simply moving your pieces across the board, without another player on the other side, to whom you react and who is reacting to your moves.
Up until 400 years ago, we thought the world was the universe, with these little lights mechanically moving overhead. Now we have a much broader vision, but then it's made our perception of our world much smaller.
Similarly, if we better understand our reality, rather than just seeking out the benefits, it will make our understanding a bit less anthropocentric, but is that a bad thing?
