"Technological progress has always made lives better" - a pretty strong claim. Historically, technology has seemingly been a mixed blessing for mankind - we can

"Technological progress has always made lives better" - a pretty strong claim. Historically, technology has seemingly been a mixed blessing for mankind - we can't live long without creating some sort of technology, but our technology often has unintended and disastrous consequences in both the short and long terms. To me part of humanity growing up would be realizing this mixed blessing and honestly critiquing technology rather than dogmatically remaining either positive or negative with regard to technology.