Certainly true. But not every technology can engage in self-replication once it's turned loose.
[shrugs] Some "technology" is profoundly different from others. (Indeed, calling biotechnology "technology" could be construed as a kind of mind control. If I make a steam engine and toss it into the back yard, I don't wake up the next day with a billion more steam engines in the back yard. If I whip up some wild bacteria or virus culture and toss it into the back yard, the next day normal weather patterns might very well be passing out billions of free samples to everyone in the world east of me... )
Mark W.
At any rate, cloning won't make the problem worse. The clones still need mothers to bear them. Lack of available wombs is the limiting factor in either case.