USSR was technophilic and invented space travel.
DPRK is technophilic.
PRC is technophilic and is the world leader in many advanced technologies.
Marx analyses technological progress deeply. The increase in productive power that results from the creation and rollout of new technologies (including AI) is what raises material standards of living.
Something of an over-correction from Silicon Valley's sect of technophilia that's divorced from any sort of mechanical understanding of technology. When people insist god is in the computer, it's hard not to fantasize about a solar storm wiping out all the Turing machines.