The author brings up something I had not heard of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stagnation, in the first paragraph. The article does not at all address how technology is going to end the horror of the great stagnation, the total loss of power by labor, who then became serfs bound to serve the rent seeking elite.
Once the tone was set, I found it impossible to focus on techno-optimism. We can't maintain growth forever, more technology by itself can't get us out of it.