When technology becomes the input and output of a processor on a chip its whole nature is changed; that is the power of the micro revolution. The miniaturization of computing hardware has enabled the processing power to be embedded in virtually any and every other technology, hidden from sight, yet surreptitiously changing the nature of the machinery it has taken control of. The decreasing cost of chips has meant that applications of computer control now range from the most sophisticated to the utterly trivial, whilst the growth of communications networks spreads that control not only around the country but also around the world...
(Michael Shallis The Silicon Idol 1984:46 [QA76 .S47])

And here's another provocative bit from another source:

The appeal of technologies is often ideological and symbolic, giving concrete expression to values like control, efficiency, utility, punctuality, speed, transparency, hierarchy, and power --values, in our view, too often detrimental to a more human life. It is these congealed values that we wanted to expose and combat...

Technology can indeed act as a prosthetic extension of human powers and communities. But virtual technologies are pernicious when their simulacra of relationships are deployed societywide as substitutes for face-to-face interactions, which are inherently richer than mediated interactions...

...like the Luddites of the first industrial revolution, we refuse to cede to capital the right to design and implement the sort of automation that deskills workers, extends managerial control over their work, intensifies their labor, and undermines their solidarity...

(Brook and Boal, Resisting the Virtual Life, pp vii-viii [HM221 .R47 1995])