[estearum]

This train of thought is hilariously rife with selection bias.

There is an infinitely long list of technologies that "Luddites and doomers" tried to block and were thankfully successful in doing so.

CFCs and ozone.

Leaded gasoline.

Thalidomide.

Offensive bioweapons.

I'm not claiming Luddites and doomers are always or usually right (they're often wrong), but your claim they were wrong every time is just total epistemological failure on your part.

[adrians1]

Oh, sorry. 99% of the time.

[estearum]

Just like seatbelts are categorically stupid and can be ignored because 99% of the time they lock, you're not actually in a collision.