A scientific evaluation: is intense use of technology (hard-tech), progress, development, economic growth, and technological advances in self-learning artificial intelligence and robotics helping humans lead and sustain a joyous, leisurely and dignified life? What are the real objectives of using technology? What costs does human society bear, in terms of efforts put in and possible harm, for the claimed benefits of technology? Do the claimed benefits serve to achieve the real objectives? This book is an attempt at a unified theory addressing these questions and the related issues, the emerging philosophical aspects concerning human life and finally, a case-study in soft-tech - a low cost technology (in terms of effort and harm)