"The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497021 is a recent, excellent, balanced, well-researched and -written book on this topic from Nick Harkaway -- a first-rate, under-read author of literary sci-fi. It's his first and only work of non-fiction. In my experience, it's common for "us" (speaking to the HN core demographic constituency here, i.e. the educated, privileged, connected and technology-empowered) to be too hasty in dismissing potentially valid criticism or objections from "them", presuming (and reinforcing) a binary choice between polar worldviews. IOW, "progressives vs luddites". IMHO reality will always be subtler than that. Harkaway -- though obviously writing as one of "us" -- examines a broad spectrum of perspectives and maintains a rare degree of objectivity in his analysis of the cultural impact of what are undeniably profound changes in humanity's interconnectedness and technology-driven capabilities. I offer no particular "TLDR" summary of the work, other than to say it reminded me there is more insight to be gleaned when we resist the temptation to divide the world into simplistic categories.