Ray it might be becoming clearer now, that there is something really big happening, supernatural actually, and it is something incredibly good. I think your instinct is right, that we should just try and stand back from the grind, stop responding to the whip, even though you go on then to bash technology, without discriminating what is positively powered, what is negatively powered, missing how both profit and destruction is related exclusively to negative, and temperature rise, etc etc.
Maybe it doesn't matter if you think there will or won't be an even higher technology future, as I absolutely do (We ain't seen nothing yet!). To me the future is technology, whilst to you the future is without, or with less, it doesn't matter, if we know what the right thing to do right now is, and that is to just stand back, let nature take control.
Believe it or not, nature is technology, and it is taking control, as far as I can see, but it doesn't include profit, that old beast is about done forever.