Although technology could destroy us, it is not our enemy. Technology can save us.
While the industrial revolution that has lead to our massively technological world can seem like an ongoing menace to life and liberty, technology should not be seen universally as a danger. Rather, all of our technologies should be individually re-assessed.
Many of our technologies are blunderingly out of control, and our over-exploitation of natural resources is blatantly unsustainable and very obviously cannot continue. Whether we, as a civilization, change before it is too late is yet to be seen, and this fear occupies a large part of the popular consciousness of our times. The solution is very simple, although perhaps more easily stated than achieved.
We need to give up unsustainable technologies, and focus entirely on sustainable technologies that rely on renewable energy sources and resources. We have to value timelessness in technology - technologies that can go on forever without running out or destroying the environment.
We are at a strange and uncertain time, and we cannot know what lies in the future. The popular imagination is filled with either apocalypses or utopias. We have to see ourselves on the cusp of the most important change in human history, where we learn to finally learn to do things right. We have to think of our species as being like a young child, learning that repercussions follow actions.
We have unleashed such emmense power in our technology. Our next task is to learn to use that power responsibly and thoughtfully, and not as children in a candystore.