The same would apply to scientists. By now it is impossible for a theoretical physicist to read all the papers even in some narrow subspecialty, so most articles on theoretical physics have little impact and are soon forgotten. Morris excluded modern technology from his utopia not only because he was in love with the Middle Ages but also because he wanted to preserve work for people to do. Although modern technology has made work more unsatisfying for many, I think that Morris was wrong in supposing that this is inevitable. The mindless, repetitive quality that makes routine jobs on assembly lines so hateful is also just the thing that would allow them in the future to be done entirely by machines.
Technology creates better jobs, from auto mechanic to astronaut.
But there is no guarantee that the advance of technology will provide all people with work that they like to do, and in the short run it converts the badly employed into the unemployed. One of the things that attract some people to technological utopias is the prospect of a world unified by technology. There is still a United States in Bellamy's Looking Backward, but its citizens look forward to eventual world unification. For instance, throughout the world we share a typesetting code for mathematical symbols known as LaTeX, based on English. I am not so sure that world unification is an unmixed blessing.