Thanks for the link. At some point he says "the gadgets are the true people of the Earth", which more or less resembles what Jacques Ellul first wrote about 60 years ago [1]:

> Hard determinists would view technology as developing independent from social concerns. They would say that technology creates a set of powerful forces acting to regulate our social activity and its meaning.

and

> According to this view of determinism we organize ourselves to meet the needs of technology and the outcome of this organization is beyond our control or we do not have the freedom to make a choice regarding the outcome (autonomous technology) (...) In his 1954 work The Technological Society, Ellul essentially posits that technology, by virtue of its power through efficiency, determines which social aspects are best suited for its own development through a process of natural selection.

I used to be a pretty big believer in things like "technology will make everything better", but after reading some of Ellul's books I've started to have my doubts about that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism#Hard...