the micro view of technology is that it improves things. how could it be otherwise? the things that used to take a painful ten hours can now be done in six, without painf. it's not until you look at capitalism, realize that we're not all on the same team, that things go awry. see, we invented this thing called money, and things have gone downhill ever since. there have been some good things to come out of it, sure, but the thing of it is, we're already at a place where we can make enough food for everybody yet people die of starvation every day because we can't get over ourselves because they don't have money so they don't deserve to eat, even though there's food right there! so technologists keep invention new technologies and society just has to deal with these technologies. because we can't just have a society where everyone is fed and has a roof over their heads and can do whatever else they want to do with their time.

so the macro view, that some technologies have actually lowered our standard of living, is difficult, because it's not the technology's fault! it's only when you have to deal with other people that there are problems. throw in 7 billion other people and of course things are bad .

Yes, that is very true. The micro perspective is that it improves things indeed, which is why it is hard to understand its true nature, which is just pure development of itself. But in fact, the Greeks already realized it in their creation of the words "techne" and "logos", which form the modern word "technology"!