He doesn't touch on the arguments that technological progress is a bad thing, in and of itself. Two extreme examples of that would be that agriculture has led t

He doesn't touch on the arguments that technological progress is a bad thing, in and of itself. Two extreme examples of that would be that agriculture has led to a massive rise in population density (compared to hunter-gatherer societies), and that advances in military technology have created a world where we live on the brink of Mutually-Assured Destruction. While that's not my personal view, it is an argument that gets raised at times...