There was no human greatness before the industrial revolution? Shakespeare or Henry Ford. Hm.
Sure they could have been established. You would have needed industry, but it could have been many, many orders of magnitude smaller scale. Read: something without global side effects. Hell, something without much local side effects.
As far as I can tell the vast majority of scientists and engineers and doctors are doing just what they are told, within the paradigm they are told is real on poor arguments, and for the powers that be.
The ingenuity involved in a nano-virus that kills homosapiens will be just dandy in some abstract way. Though if that ingenuity’s intent was to create that virus or the current cellphone, then that ingenuity is founded on a kind of idiocy that’s trumps its skill.
ACtually I think that is precisely why it was created.
Which is not mutually exclusive.
The technocrats and their handlers are confused about reality, have poor values and have the appearance of power. They are not your friends. You are just a modular, chemical machine to them. They think your consciousness is an epiphenomenon, your genes are flawed and should be not simply tweaked by overhauled. They think you are meat that this is a poor medium. Their handlers think you, at best, are a poorly made servent for them. And they will replace you as soon as they can with a cyborg/robot. That many of the technocrats will do this to themselves also does not mean they do not hate you. Some of them hate themselves and their handlers certainly hate them.
You think you are somehow better because you are what they think of as a meat machine of their race. And since technocrats of your race were better at killing other races, then better value, more life, the glorious will to power won out. Whereas it is death but a pickled lively form of it has been winning out.
You’ll see when the medical/military/law enforcement/corporate complex finds your body, one day in its scopes. And it will. You will get some kind of serious disease at some point, and you will, whether you notice it or not, find out about the lovely anti-life in those inventions you take as complete set.
And sure, someone shoots me, I will try to get to an emergency room. I get certain kinds of disease I will use Western med. But in general there is a real disease in the warlike, naive anti-holism even in medicine, let alone in the manufacture of cellphones and corporate behavior in general.
YOu can go on thinking that corporations are white and you are white so YOU are better than africans. This may feel good, but it is a hallucination on so many levels, including the dreamy bits about the future, how eschatological of you, where you are uploaded - or is it a copy - to the technocrat heaven.