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I don't think he's arguing that we don't learn and change; I think he's arguing that we learn and change to benefit our technologies because we've become entrapped by them:It would seem that the author is fighting for a definition of "human" which does not include the flexibility to learn & change.
Advanced technologies ... created dependency; they took tools and processes out of the hands of individuals and put them into the metaphorical hands of organizations. The result was often “modernized poverty,” in which human individuals became the equivalent of parts in a machine rather than the owners and users of a tool.