New technologies are being packaged by publicity strategists before being presented to the public. Yet these people are utterly unable to have a critical view on the objects they are presenting. You have of course Jean Baudrillard, but he has landed in quite a different position than you have. Even here in Germany, there is acclaim for the technology-push nowadays, and praise for exactly the the sorts of things you demonize. We are at the threshold of our tolerance-limit.
Close vicinity is something that is vanishing.
This does not mean the end of history in the way Francis Fukuyama has postulated. Something other than history is now coming to the fore. In a sense, we are standing at the foot of the wall of time. We have realized absolute speed on a global plane - and not only through broadcasting or the telephone, but in many other ways as well, and this will encompass all auditory sense, all sight, all tactile power. It includes also remote control mechanisms, and the possibilities of whole cities interacting with each other.