Ted Gioia [writes](https://www.honest-broker.com/p/10-reasons-why-technological-progress) on “why technological progress is reversing”, i.e. tech changes are reducing rather than enhancing human flourishing. He puts the inflection point at around 2015. Mostly familiar if you read him regularly. I was struck by his pointing at postmodernist thinking as a culprit: the notion that ideas like truth and beauty are only masked expressions of power slowly leaked out of the academy into the culture, especially into the tech subculture.