This type of technological promotion has a long history, going back to the early World Fairs in Chicago 1893 & St. Louis 1904.  At every one of them the latest technological marvels from railroads to carz to airplanes to space travel to computers have been promoted as the solution to all the world's problems.  Not surprisingly, all of the Fairs were financed by the corporations which built these "essential" devices for modern living, heavily subsidized by taxes and bond issues by the places that hosted them.

Technology begets technology in a never ending spiral, each new one more complex than the last and each more energy dependent as well,  The spiral suffers from irreversibility, once begun you can't backtrack and simplify the systems.

People are always seduced by inventions which appear to make their livess better and easier, but every one of them also comes with hidden costs often not apparent at the beginning, at least not  unless carefully considered.  Even when the costs are known, the tech is pursued anyhow because somebody can make a big profit from it.

Thus we ended up where we are today, riding the technolgical bullet train towards the brick wall of energy and resource depletion coupled with environmental pollution.  It was pretty much inevitable and unstoppable, a consequence of our big brains and opposable thumbs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGjeNUAWZTA

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