No one is capable of predicting the full implications of technology like the internet but it was mostly a tool for globalization like the global free market before it. Generally, normies are preprogrammed to conceive of all new technology as good because it's convenient, amusing or just because "muh technological/ scientific progress". It's a religion. Of course the reality is we shouldn't idolize technology as an end in itself but should only use it as a tool for solving certain problems and be careful if it does more harm than good. But that gets into ethics and today's societies don't have a coherent view on that and people's opinions are being manipulated through propaganda.

No one is capable of predicting the full implications of technology like the internet but it was mostly a tool for globalization like the global free market before it. Generally, normies are preprogrammed to conceive of all new technology as good because it's convenient, amusing or just because "muh technological/ scientific progress". It's a religion. Of course the reality is we shouldn't idolize technology as an end in itself but should only use it as a tool for solving certain problems and be careful if it does more harm than good. But that gets into ethics and today's societies don't have a coherent view on that and people's opinions are being manipulated through propaganda.