> The problem for them (and which I think a great many people would agree) is when technology ceases to serve us and we (society) become indentured to the techn

> The problem for them (and which I think a great many people would agree) is when technology ceases to serve us and we (society) become indentured to the technology. This is a very good book on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly. It has three kinds of relationships a culture can have to technology: tool-using culture: the culture is dominant, tools are used to solve problems and are sued to serve the culture, not attack it. technocracy: tools attack and change the culture, but the culture still has some force to it. technopoly: the tools are dominant, and all of culture and humanity must submit to them and their needs. A "totalitarian technocracy." The Amish are a tool-using culture. General western society is a technocracy or technopoly.