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I think they do have it backwards:
- Technology is an enabler. Since humanity parted from apes, tools are the enabler for the individual to do more with the rest of the planet than it could do with bare hands.
- As technology evolves, tools and technology hand more and more power to the individual over an increasing portion of the rest of the system. Pushing the red button may still have a few safety features, but what about bioweapons in third world garages or some dangerous nanotech?
- In fact technology helps to destabilize the system, since the system of humanity depends increasingly more fine grained on the sanity of individuals.
- Ingenuity of the invention does not impose control how technology is used with respect to the system of earth and humanity. It can be used for great benefit developing new vaccines or to drop nuclear bombs, e.g., on Japan.
- Engineers are just the first to construct and to use new tools, be it nuclear-, bio-, or nanotech. Once technology becomes ubiquitous enough for everyone to use, other people do follow.