Is technology the doom of civilization?

This seems like a silly article to me, in that the author (and his subject, Kevin Kelly) assumes we all have a very similar definition of the concept "technology".

The article doesn't make sense for some sets of technology, for example, the pre-European-contact Polynesian's biological and superstition-based technology set. Those Polynesians had a technology based on plants, animals and biological raw materials and skills in manipulating them. They didn't have metals, metalworking or even fired-clay-pottery, but they managed to find and colonize virtually all habitable Pacific islands. Would taking up that set of technologies put us on some kind of irresistable train ride to ruination?