Imagine for a moment that pretty much everything you think about technology is wrong. That the devices you believed are your friends are in fact your enemies. That they are involved in a vast conspiracy to colonize your mind and steal your soul. That their ultimate aim is to turn you into one of them: a machine.
It’s a staple of science fiction plots, and perhaps the fever dream of anyone who’s struggled too long with a crashing computer.
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Of course no one knows him, and that's not a bad thing. For one, he's trying to use religion against technology because everyone knows that knowledge is the mortal enemy of faith, and technology is one of the best ways to get access to knowledge. In a battle between fideism and technology, the latter will always win. Also, the argument is stupid. We've been dependent on technology since we creamed the first animal for food with a stick, or rock, or ??
Yes, what we need to do is set some limits. One excellent place to start that would greatly reduce the angst and ennui of the present time would be a limit on procreation technologies, specifically an Egg and Sperm law that limits creation of people to the way everyone is currently created today and since forever - the union of one man and one woman, using their natural gametes. There are people called Transhumanists who think it'd be better to make people using genetic engineering and people called "postgenderists" who hope to eradicate sex and gender so that people can procreate with someone of the same sex, or change sex and procreate as their new sex. That sort of technology would be very enslaving, it would effectively destroy the basis of equality and liberty, and create a huge government regulatory agency and harm everyone's natural procreation rights. To prserve natural procreation rights and equality, we need to set a limit on how people are created.