Evaluation of Kurt Vonnegut's statement

Using examples from “The Euphio Question” and current events evaluate the statement:

“Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

I think that there is some truth in what Vonnegut is saying. But having said so, I don’t agree with him fully. People shouldn’t make things that they can’t control, but I think that they can use things that they can control, and can help people. In “The Euphio Question” the humans couldn’t control the machine, so it was seen as bad. But not everything is like that. For example vacuum cleaners are built to make life easier. Instead of cleaning with a broom that is very time consuming and can give you back pains, you can use a vacuum cleaner, which is 10 times more affective and quicker to use. Now there are even vacuum cleaners that vacuum by themselves, which you can control! Vonnegut seems to think that everything that is electronic technology is bad, but I don’t think that he really understands the gadgets. Maybe it scares him that he won’t be in control (or humans for that matter) but machines will be some day.