Very nicely put - you are articulating something that most of the 'tech critics' on here are missing.
The idea that computer-based technological progress moves society forward was always an illusion. It cannot be our salvation and it is dangerous to our survival to continue thinking this way.
We have deluded ourselves into thinking tech is fundamentally a tool of progress, a tool of democracy, a tool of liberation, a tool of societal wellness and growth. This was projection, and untrue: it is simply a tool of whatever forces govern us as humans.
Unless we liberate ourselves from an underlying vision of status chasing and material exploitation, we will never learn how appropriately use the tools at hand.
It's the invention of firearms all over again, a symptom of a greater unadressed underlying sickness of human civilizational culture that must be treated at the source.