> Technology is supposed to make our lives easier.
Technology isn't supposed to do anything. Technology is a tool to be used. Anyone can use tools incorrectly. Lots of people do, including myself!
Do you use a hammer to code? A keyboard to paint your walls? Do you strap phones to your feet to move faster or do you use a bike for that?
Technology and other tools very much shape what we do and can do with them. We shape them and they shape us.
See the 3 different perspectives from here.
Missiles as a tool to do damage don't necessarily make other peoples lives easier. But it might make the lives easier of those who wish to do damage.
Technology is a tool, which can be used to make lives easier and harder.
Most people don’t care about incremental improvements
Using it wrong is a result, not indication of intent
Technology might make your life easier, but that doesn't mean it makes anyone else's easier.
Technology might help you send a missile into another country, but that doesn't make their lives easier.
Technology is a tool that we use to do what we want to do easier, better however you put it, but it doesn't necessarily make our lives easier. It makes a particular job or task easier.
Even writing this down I am getting too philosophical and disagreeing with myself.
I guess it could make your life easier day to day, but that doesn't mean it makes anyone else easier.