Wait till we hit the Neuromancer stage of technology.
This is all very silly. Human beings have always been "led around" by their own inventions. I'm a technological determinist: once a scientific / technological capacity is invented (for example, lens grinding) you cannot control what people will do with that capacity (for example, make a telescope and argue our cosmology is wrong).
Especially since the 19th century, technological capacity growth has been amazing fast. A growth curve that exceeds all previous centuries combined, Karl Marx said in the first few pages of the CM.
The effects of this rapidity of technological growth on people, Alvin Toffler called "Future Shock" in the 1970 popular book by the same name, but it is not a new idea.
Emile Durkheim, 70 years earlier, called it "anomie" or normlessness.
Take this brother may it serve you well.
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Nah, no nihilism. If the human species were an inherently nihilistic species we would have set off more than 2 nuclear devices in population centers by now. Either that or we suck at being nihilists?
If Russia's seppuku is any testimony, the answer to that question is a resounding, and almost comic, yes.
There's not much to be afraid of, is my point. And the machines that we've built always then have their way with us. But that is our evolutionary angular momentum, see.
Nothing moves without implying angular momentum.