Interesting to consider this thread with regards to the Amish. They noped off the tech treadmill but it requires a highly cohesive religiously centered society to maintain the necessary critical mass.

It's a lot harder to make an insular society which is self sufficient just to the degree necessary to create an open source smartphone :-p

Technology brings tradeoffs. Conformity in some regards, but it also opens up many new and varied ways of living.