You see, a lot of people think that these technologies are part of what got us into the supposedly sorry state of affairs we are in now. On the other hand, some people would argue that technology is neutral. It is neither good nor bad. People use it for their own purposes, whatever they may be. That's a pretty shallow view of technology.
Good philosophies produce good science.
Bad philosophies produce bad science and eventually die off. We think of the lousy art produced by the state-sanctioned artists of the Soviet Union. We think of all the great artists who fled Nazi Germany. We think of the flowering of the visual arts during the renaissance. We think of Elizabethan England.