This cuts both ways, though. Elevators are quite nice, but what about nuclear weapons and Skinner boxes? (aka, smartphones) I'm not trying to paint a broad brus

This cuts both ways, though. Elevators are quite nice, but what about nuclear weapons and Skinner boxes? (aka, smartphones) I'm not trying to paint a broad brush where technology is either all good or evil. But, quite a bit of the magic of population size and telecommunications are wasted on useless or evil efforts. And, at some point, there will be too many people. We can debate on the number the Earth can safely support, but we must agree it's lower than infinity. So, there must be some balance to overpopulation and destruction it brings, and underpopulation and the progress it halts. Do you think there's a good balance we can / should arrive at? Do you think we're anywhere close to it?