I mean, before the creation of electric light, or at least less expensive fuel based light a lot of the world pretty much shut down at dark. After that point huge numbers of industries started going to 24 hour operations once the affordability metrics were reached.
But that also meant you had to go to work in most of these cases. With the advent of the internet work could come to you wherever you are, all over the planet. And now we see that occurring with powerful computers (phones/tables) that we carry with us at all times.
I think what they mean is that technology promises to make our lives easier. Phones and our relationship with them are a manifestation of this promise. People buying the latest flagship don't do so because they anticipate things will be worse.
I guess we can read into this way too much and become too philosophical.
Technology might make your life easier, but that doesn't mean it makes anyone else's easier.
Technology might help you send a missile into another country, but that doesn't make their lives easier.
Technology is a tool that we use to do what we want to do easier, better however you put it, but it doesn't necessarily make our lives easier. It makes a particular job or task easier.
Even writing this down I am getting too philosophical and disagreeing with myself.
I guess it could make your life easier day to day, but that doesn't mean it makes anyone else easier.
