One follow up question you might want to be asking is why you thought that in the first place and what it has to do with current societal views.
I think the danger in this focus on technology now is that it is so easy to dismiss anything at all that ancient Greeks or whomever said as not even simply wrong but even trivial and unworthy of being studied.
Of course I used to dismiss most earlier writings as well. What could they possibly teach me, after all everything is so advanced now? This kind of attitude being widespread and I think entailed in most modern science talk (as an unspoken and easy conclusion that mostly never becomes explicit) is part of the reason we struggle with the same issues as you say.
If I see something wrong published on the topic that I know well, I assume that the quality of the content from the same source is not any better for the topics I don't know.
It is a good general principle but the heuristics/shortcut doesn't work sometimes.