Comment by drewcoo

Humans are tool users. That's technology.

But the Luddites of the 19th century didn't like being devalued by tech. Like the Hulk, Luddites smash!

San Francisco's Great Fire of 1906 would not have happened if the city hadn't been plumbed for gas - new tech at the time that apparently did not have human safety in mind.

In the early 20th century there was an uneasy relationship with electricity, easily demonstrated by Thomas Edison's gruesome staged electrocution of animals and also by the the more whimsical cartoons of Rube Goldberg.

These stresses have been ongoing and increasing, the Unabomber just being one more example.

I think it has to do with people not handling the amount of new complexity all at once. And that seems like a wonderful design problem.