What impact did technological progress have on human life?

Whatever the examples of the negative impact of progress, it still must and will have a positive effect on people’s lives. Imagine, for example, a person’s life before and after the invention of the telephone. Of course, progress is now to the point that we can contact any person through communication. And in the 18th century, this was just incredible. For example, the appearance of steam engines had a purely positive effect on production and accelerated its development.