Technology in the modern era: Utopia or Dystopia?

So while researching information (mostly background stuff), I came across a few interesting articles related to my paper topic.

Technology Today: Utopia or Dystopia? – Technology and the Rest of Culture
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_n3_v64/ai_19952021/pg_1

Reproductive Technology: Utopia or Nemesis?
http://www.dhushara.com/paradoxhtm/reprod.htm

Korea’s High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything is Observed
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/technology/techspecial/05oconnell.html

All of them give an interesting insight into the effects of technology in modern culture (and the effects that future technology, if pursued vigorously, will have on society in the years to come). Most specifically the authors of each provide a view, either positive and negative, on how technology today can be either a tool or detriment to society. In particular, the last article about proposed building of Korea's High Tech Utopia is a short, but facinating read. It briefly gives an outline of all the high technology that would be implemented in this futuristic city, eerily bringing to mind a technological utopia not that far off from the one found in Ralph 12 4C 41+.