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Bill McKibben lays out this argument pretty well in his book "Eaarth." He's not the first person to point out that an exponential system cannot increase indefinitely and that the notion of ever-increasing production is a recent (and dangerous) one. In a nutshell, McKibben argues that what computers have done for us is eliminate the need to travel and transport from far to near and that in the end, we're going to be much happier living much simpler lives.
However, he starts out his argument with "and we're totally fucked if we don't" and buttresses it with "and our lifestyles are going to be significantly less complicated and filled with stuff in the meantime." Things like "you're going to get to eat meat maybe once a week" and "foreign travel is going to be the luxury of the extraordinarily wealthy."