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True, but it is meaningful to understand whether the "quantity" advantages - drawbacks decreases over time, which I believe it does.

And we should indeed apply the logic to other inventions: some are more worth using than others, whereas in today's society, we just use all of them due to the mechanisms of the prisoner's dilemma. The Amish, on the other hand, apply deliberation on whether to use certain technologies, which is a far better approach.



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