The last clause of your response doesn't make sense so maybe you're not responding to me, but just in case you were serious:
Snide yes, but BS no. The industrial revolution did nothing
to the quality of life compared to cooking food and scaring wild animals away. The point is that it takes more and more work to make meaningful progress. The low fruit has been picked. Minimizing the impact of computation is what is BS since there is almost no aspect of life and the economy that hasn't been greatly impacted by it.
Snide yes, but BS no. The industrial revolution did nothing to the quality of life compared to cooking food and scaring wild animals away. The point is that it takes more and more work to make meaningful progress. The low fruit has been picked. Minimizing the impact of computation is what is BS since there is almost no aspect of life and the economy that hasn't been greatly impacted by it.