Evolutionary history teaches us that large and complex systems are vulnerable to outside shocks. Climatic change, sudden volcanic activity, to say nothing of asteroids can lead to mass extinction. As she herself notes, there is nothing kind and gentle about evolutionary competition. My point, to repeat, is not that I truly believe that we are like the dinosaurs, sitting ducks for the first oversized meteorite that comes along. The analogy with biology here is enlightening precisely because it is misleading.
Darwinian competition favors species with higher fitness and adaptability.
There is more, however. At times technology is resisted because it conflicts not with epistemological priors but with moral ones. An epistemological prior is easy to overcome. If I think that heavier than air machines cannot work or that information cannot be transmitted at the speed of light through an electrical wire, looking at an airplane or a telegraph at work will change my mind. If I think that they involve serious risks, and nothing happens for many years, I will update my subjective prior probability distribution and my associated loss function.