Typical dystopian claims:
1. Technologies reflect and encourage the worst aspects of human nature
2. Technologies harm our interpersonal communication, relationships, and communities
3. Technologies reinforce hierarchies - increase surveillance and erode privacy; widen inequalities of power and wealth
4. New technologies are sometimes regressive
5. The unforeseen impacts of technology are negative
6. More efficiency and choices can harm our quality of life (by causing stress, destroying jobs, making us more materialistic)
7. New technologies cannot solve problems of old technologies or just create new problems
8. Technologies destroy nature (harming human health and the environment