Some of the greatest technical and scientific achievements by man...metallurgy, cast iron, steel, physics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, controlled combustion, coal mining, AC power, central power stations, long-distance transmission of power, step-up and step-down transformers, control systems, wire manufacturing, electrical appliances, the incandescent bulb, motive power, traction engines, refrigeration cycles...were all mastered and commercialized to eliminate the pure drudgery of life for mankind that existed for 10,000 years and made for average lifespans of less than 40 years.
Why would we want to undo all this stellar achievement?
As someone who spent most of his career in the power industry, there is very little in life that makes me more angry than the idiots and hypocrites who posture and rail against power but who won’t go live in caves, eat bugs and bark, wear animal skins, toil in fields all day, and die by age 30.
I don’t even see them as eliminating drudgery, but rather as extending the capabilities of humanity.
Electricity, etc. are part of the reason why we aren’t staring down the barrel of a Malthusian menace.
There was a time when glory for these discoveries would have been given to God. It’s still not too late to, as the first long distance telegraph in 1844 did, say “What hath God wrought?”