From John Gray’s “Al Qaeda and what it means to be modern”:
“For Saint-Simon and Comte, technology meant railways and canals. For Lenin it meant electricity. For neo-liberals it means the Internet. The message is the same. Technology – the practical application of scientific knowledge – produces a convergence in values. This is the central modern myth, which the Positivists propagated and everyone today accepts as fact.”
I’m about a third of my way through. It’s compact [120-odd pages?] and it’s a cracking read so far.
For someone who works in technology, and has perhaps would be characterised as vaguely-progressive-but-healthy-sceptical liberal view of it’s beneficial effects; it’s a very challenging but valuable viewpoint to be exposed to.
Petafloptimism 
I find it very funny (depressing?) that Amazon is the US doesn’t carry this book.
Idf it’s the same John Gray, which in imagine it is, you should read “False Dawn”. It’s an anti-globalisation book – kind of – but from a very secure economic argument position.
He also basically predicted a 9/11 type incident as a result of globalisation perssure about a year before it happened. It’s a good, thought provoking read.