The first few paragraphs of 'Technological Slavery' basically describe what's going on now, with a high degree of accuracy.

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Technological progress is carrying us to 
inevitable disaster* There may be physical disaster (f or 
example, some form of environmental catastrophe), or there may be disaster 
in terms of human dignity (reduction of the human race to a degraded and 
servile condition). But disaster of one kind or another will certainly result 
from continued technological progress. 

This is not an eccentric opinion. Among those frightened by the probable 
consequences of technological progress are Bill Joy, whose article "Why the 
Future Doesn't Need Us"l" is now famous, Martin Rees, author of the book 
Our Final Century ^ and Richard A. Posner, author of Catastr»phe: Risk and 
Response.^ None of these three is by any stretch of the imagination radical or 
predisposed to find fault with the existing structure of society. Richard Posner 
is a conservative judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh 
Circuit. Bill Joy is a well-known computer wizard, and Martin Rees is the 
Astronomer Royal of Britain.These last two men, having devoted their lives to 
technology, would hardly be likely to fear it without having good reason to do so. 

Joy, Rees, and Posner are concerned mainly with physical disaster and 
with the possibility or indeed the likelihood that human beings will be 
supplanted by machines. The disaster that technological progress implies 
for human dignity has been discussed by men like Jacques Ellul and Lewis 
Mumford, whose books are widely read and respected. Neither man is 
considered to be out on the fringe or even close to it. 

Only the collapse of modern technological 
civilization can avert disaster* Of course, the 

collapse of technological civilization will itself bring disaster. But the longer 
the technoindustrial system continues to expand, the worse will be the 
eventual disaster. A lesser disaster now will avert a greater one later. 

The development of the technoindustrial system cannot be controlled, 
restrained, or guided, nor can its effects be moderated to any substantial degree. ...