It was insightful of him and there absolutely are similar strains of hype today!

He also both points out the silliness of the pitch for the hype-y tech of the day and calls that same tech a tool some might use with good reason.

That doesn't read to me like "tech hyped as inevitable is never okay" but more like "ignore sales pitches and evaluate the hyped tech for yourself." Your own judgment of today's hyped tech might be "kill it with fire." Still, it seems fully in sync with the spirit of that passage for Recurse to ask for a bunch of smart people's varied opinions on it and share them with the world.