TV and computers and phones are good technology. Now they consume too many resources needed for other purposes and generate too much waste in production and consumption. Democracy is one political expression of the common good. More Americans are exposed to the chronology of American history at Disneyworld than in the curriculum of American public schools. American commitment to town meeting democracy once promoted but now lessens the common good that transcends small towns.
Regulatory bureaucracy is a more effective technology than local political participation.
The best technology is the information system that can motivate large populations at that point at which they control the button on the channel selector. Sesame Street has long since become more important than Mom or Apple Pie.