Don’t overlook the general nature of current technology: it’s never as good as it was intended to be, and in many instances worse, or more problematic, than whatever it was intended to replace.
I agree with that to a point.
Leukemia was something that used to be a death sentence. Today we’ve made great strides, and a pretty decent percentage of people survive it.
While the idea that sometime we harm instead of help is valid, it’s also valid to say that we have made some incredible inroads against disease, and we will certainly make more.
Perhaps it will be two steps forward and 2-4 steps backwards at times, but we will make headway.
What I have always been fascinated by is mankind’s belief that we are better than our ancestors. We are smarter, faster, blah, blah, blah. Yet, there is the second law of thermodynamics (which Einstein called the most basic law of science) which says that in Nature, systems always go from order to disorder. IF you believe in science, and IF you believe in Evolution, then Evolution would be from a more ordered species to a less ordered species … (which essentially is the plot of Idiocracy), yet we have these clearly opposite thesis accepted as scientific fact. One of them has to be wrong … is it the one that is actually observable (apples rot ((i.e., go from order to disorder)) when they fall from the tree), or the one based on “common sense” (i.e, we must be descended from monkeys because we share 97% of the genome).