There’s always going to be people that are resistant to new tech. That being said, I think its important to differentiate between resistance to new tech and then resistance to our current social allocation of technology.

Adam Smith envisioned a world where people would only have to work 20 hours a day because of advancements in new tech. Despite increases in productivity that clearly hasn’t happened and instead we’ve just seen tech being used to create a new underclass of workers and web of state/corporate surveillance.

I think one of the huge problems is that we’ve completely disconnected the creation of new technology from any ethical discussion about how its used and the consequences. Both as a society and individuals we’re all going to have to figure out where we ‘draw the line’ as new tech reshapes our society and creates an array of ethical dilemmas.

This isn’t a new question either, but rather one that people have been grappling with for centuries. Check out the Luddites—a group of weavers in the early 19th century who engaged in industrial sabotage and outright rebellion after the invention of the steam loom—for a good historical example.