What is the effect new technology of agriculture and manufacturing?

one of the most striking things about modern times is the extent to which new technologies have forced huge numbers of people into choices that any social planner, if he had the choice, would have done everything possible to avoid. Indeed, our modern history is in large part one of the unexpected ways in which new technologies have changed our interactions with each other.”

From all the revolutions that have happened we can see that it has transformed our society into a mass consumer society.