Most of us live still in the 90s fantasy world, where technological "progress" means actual progress.
Most what our community celebrates as success are not new advancements, but projects that are buying just a little more time to survive in societal niches. Mainly reactionary, defensive stuff - for decades. Which is valuable without doubt, but it's born out of permanent struggle and stress much more than human ingenuity.
Most humans have already been fully absorbed and enslaved by the Kraken. Reality is that we are sugarcoating ourselves with hopium and wannabe revolutionary stuff, when the dystopian world is right there around everybody, while utopian ideals are far.