[from The Oxford Encyclopedia of The Modern World]
Two interesting things to consider:
1) This can refer to "technology" not only as electronics, but as any tool that humans have employed to capture some desired value more efficiently.2) The use of "in some capacity" to describe utopia seems to indicate that the concept is fundamentally unacheivable (and rightly so) - even through platforms like the Internet work to shift social organization entirely. It's worth noting that key technologies have always shifted social organization entirely, and we're no closer to utopia for it. One cant help but wonder if there's an optimal alternative to utopia (an amusing thought, given our standard definitions of 'optimal' and 'utopia'). In fact, I say "rightly so" because of the reactive nature of human culture - it is impossible to escape the shifting of what 'optimal' means when the social structure it is trying to define shifts as well (think of this somewhat similar to Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle).
