Mark Andreesen just dropped a "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" in which he claims that there has been a decades-long sustained fight against technology. I'm sorry, but this is shockingly wrong, and it needs to be labeled as such.
1) If anything, we have been worshipping at the altar of technology for the past six decades. We have consistently believed that technology will solve all of our problems (or at least *can* solve those problems). We have all been Techno Optimists for a very long time, and I don't think that's likely to change.
2) What people are fighting against is the unbridled centralization of power that always seems to be the end state of transformative technological advancement. I love capitalism. I absolutely fear the continued growth of a technology-driven oligarchy that people like Marc Andreesen seem hell-bent on driving us more deeply into.
Whether it's ineptitude (the belief that being good at one thing makes them good at any thing) or actual malice (the self-serving nature of a techno bro calling any technology or market oversight "the enemies" borders on comical), he's perhaps the wrong person to bring the message of technology as the path to a better future.
Read the room, dude.