Ask HN: Is tech making our lives better or worse overall?

How do you define tech? Did the invention of printed paper improve our lives? Did the invention of the pen improve our lives? Did the invention of penicillin improve our lives? etc....

I think it makes our lives easier, but anything can be misused.

Planes can drop bombs, they can also rescue hurricane victims.

Books can educate, they can also spread propaganda.

It all depends on the motivation behind the use of the tech.

Depends on what standards you judge by, and whether you use it responsibly or not. It's hard to talk about "technology" as a whole, but I would say it has definitely made our lives easier (not necessarily better or worse).

Better, we are healthier, more informed (even with the advent of increasingly common misinformation), more socially conscious, more equally pervasive, and happier as a society.

Our education rates have skyrocketed and literacy is higher than ever.

Yes.