> which gives them the luxury to resist these technologies on moral grounds, or even on the grounds of not wanting to learn the new thing.

I do think making a smartphone a requirement for living is a genuinely catastrophic idea, not simply an ivory tower exercise nor conservativism. Requiring people to possess and carry with them at all times a computer with a myriad of sensors and an ever-broadcasting beacon not under their control seems terribly fragile, unnatural, caste-creating and cruel. It is worthwhile to fight this, despite it being undeniably convenient for some things.