Let me guess you were born in the 70s?
don’t get me wrong, I think there is a lot of truth in some of the stuff you have said. But I have also noticed a trend in every generation to reach a point when they think the whole world has gone to hell in a hand basket and reflect fondly on a time when they were younger and things were right. This could be the way getting old is defined in fact. I suspect that it has been that way for many decades and maybe centuries. More.
but the flip side is that technology is not making us better. Not right now anyway. Or at least not the technology that most of us have our hands on - literally- at all hours of the day. Do we own them or do they own us?