[Noos]

I don't know about this. I think they can be useless, useful, and terrifying all at the same time. I walked into my local petco one day and saw these:

https://www.glofish.com

Useless, all that technology expressing itself in making glowing fish. The tech behind it however is incredibly useful. But wow, the existential dread watching them swim around under a black light was considerable.

Or on the other shelves, looking and seeing dog or cat "calming collars" that use pheromones tailored specifically for individual species. I mean, its funny at how useless and useful it is at the same time. Is your dog a worrywart? Use pheromones to make him stress free! But you wonder some day if some bright tech baron will start to make human calming collars, or bracelets, or what have you...

Maybe not big tech per se, but the writer of this article might have a failure of imagination if they only see the uselessness.