Technology, at least commercially available technology, should have stopped advancing after the year 2000.
During '90s, especially the late '90s, technology reached the sweet spot where it was useful, provided us with more opportunities, made our life easier and at the same time wasn't as pointlessly addicting and full of botnet as it is now.
Despite having objectively better hardware and a better connection infrastructure, however, newer devices offer pretty much nothing we couldn't do already in the late 90s, except we didn't have those fancy bloated interfaces.
We are effectively utilizing more resources for useless shit that doesn't actually benefit us in any way.
While there is indeed legitimate use for this increased processing capability (think scientific or real time computing) the average consumer just never needed such powerful hardware before bloated software and the bloated web came, and they still wouldn't need it now if software stayed lean and light.
I firmly believe that commercially available technology started evolving in the wrong direction after year 2000 or so, but while I think the situation was overall better in the past, I'm not saying it's the best possible scenario ever. We can still and we should do better, we just have to get back to the right track.
tl;dr technological innovation took a wrong turn after 2000