While what your saying does sound pleasant and what not, I do have to disagree. The progression of technology only makes it so that we become less appreciative of the essentials of life. The more and more "technologically advanced" we become I believe sets us ever further behind. While it is nice to have these cool gadgets, how many of us nowadays would survive if - God forbid - there were some catastrophic event that made technology functionless? It's prioritizing the wrong things.we've escaped the surly bounds of natural selection
While we have, we're also on an unhealthy path toward overpopulation (assuming we aren't already there). Natural selection is meant to occur and getting rid of it is us meddling into things that we shouldn't be meddling with.