E.W.F. Tomlin: "The golden age is golden only in retrospect, but merely gilded upon examination." You're forgetting Friedrich Nietzsche's diatribes against his own, 19th-century, times. And did not Friedrich Nietzsche forget Heraclitus's misanthropic remonstrances?
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Not remotely saying it was any kind of Utopia. Just that we've gone socio-politically down the crapper since.
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TBH, medicine, transport, materials, or even good old weapons tech has also taken rather massive steps, not to even mention basic science. I think I get what you mean but even so, it's clearly not just IT, it's the entire STEM complex as a whole.
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Spoken like a true believer in semi feudal social and productive relations
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Here's a conservative contra position in the old Roger Scruton vehicle, the Salisbury Review - http://www.salisburyreview.com/articles/boris-buses-boris-bikes-now-boris-pm/ …
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