All technology is a double-edged sword

What technology would you be better off without, why?

I’m trying to think over a consumer technology that is definitively and conclusively bad, but can’t think of one. Each innovation has brought an equal share of good and bad.

Ride-sharing apps:

The good: consumer convenience, ability to not own a vehicle, better for the environment if less cars are on the road.

The bad: Undervalues workers and pays them little with no labour protections, profit flows upwards to corporate overlords, pernicious tracking and review process allows riders to ruin a driver’s rating.

Mobile phones

The good: infinite information at your fingertips and in your pocket. Ability to be in contact with people 24/7.

The bad: inability to leave your device alone and using it as a pacifier. 24 hr news cycle breeds existential anxiety. A lack of interactions in-person with people instead just a quick emoji sent, which is not a relationship.

Industrialised clothing manufacturing:

The good: democratised clothing making it much easier for the average person to look amazing, made quality clothing in materials like silk more readily available and not the privilege of the wealthy or royalty.

The bad: Outsourced manufacturing to the developing world leads to human rights abuses and slavery for common items sold in the West. High consumer demand leads to wasteful creation of stuff that ends up in landfill. A flood of poorly made stuff on the market. Artisans and experts in making clothes are made obsolete by machines.

Spying software:

The good: Allows governments to investigate crimes like child abuse or slavery, find and locate criminals.

The bad: allows governments or nefarious actors to spy on average people in order to scam them or take advantage of them.

Older technologies have bought more good and very little bad: washing machines, ovens, windows, mattresses, lighting, radio, antibiotics, soap. 

Some technologies are 100% evil: seabed mining and fracking, weapons manufacturing.