Whoever wrote this article is a complete fool.
His valuing of modern technology shows no understanding of what is important in life.
Technology is mostly the business of making more of less, and that is usually a more of lesser quality.
In the process, our lives become burdened with increasing complexity and the natural environment pillaged and polluted.
We may have no choice but to continue to develop technology to cure the ills created by technology, but I very much doubt this process can go on forever.
And despite what scientists tell us about the statistical probability of other technological civilizations existing in the universe, I suspect any civilization that reaches the level of technological development to be able to communicate wirelessly, may be only a century or two or three from self-destructing.
So though there may be vast numbers of planets that should support life and “intelligent” civilizations, the odds of signals from another planet’s brief technological window coinciding with our technological window to hear it, may be slim to none.
For instance, we certainly ought to be developing more nuclear power, but the claim that this will give us energy "at negligible cost" is ludicrous -- it costs considerable time and energy (and hence money) to mine and refine fissionable material and dispose of radioactive waste (and, no, it's not purely a problem of politican NIMBY obstructionism).
As a man who knows he is a fool, that would make me their king, so here I am the “King of Fools”.
And now I would say how can anyone say that the problem is technology, when the problem is clearly the missuses of technology that usually cause the problem.
I mean no one goes out and says hey let’s get together and mess up the world.
However there is a small percent (Mostly is government) that think they are entitled to tell all of us how we should be living and most recently how we should spend our hard earned wealth.
If we have the foresight to truly launch our country’s hi-tech industries into space we will have the high ground in the next industrial revolution.
But of course that does not happen if men, not technology, goes to war against us.
May God Shield Us all,