What does technology enable?

http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/277/412

There are reactions against problematic aspects like centralization, pollution and displacement due to automation, etc. but rarely acknowledged is how the purported beneficial aspects have problematic consequences.

Technology enables. That sounds good. But Kirk Sale concludes his book about the Luddites saying: “Modern technology enables us to do the misguided things we’re doing faster, larger, and more efficiently than ever before.”

Misguided:

Growing, consuming, polluting, depleting.

Complexifying rather than simplifying.

Instead of dwelling in and taking responsibility for a particular place on earth; instead of attending to an interdependence with a specific, familiar social group; the technological capability encourages us to project our attention farther and farther from the local. In doing so we continue a process of undermining local community life that accelerated with the onset of industrial modernity three hundred years ago.