Does Can Technology Lead To Utopia?

Can Technology Lead to Utopia? My mother would rather snapchat than answer my calls; therefore from the perspective of an 18 year old girl with no sense of social media, the idea that technology is the driving force of the future baffles me. Of course, that doesn’t only refer to social media. Within the past few decades, we’ve seen huge booms in technology throughout all aspects of life, but is there a limit to how far that can take us? From smartphones to lasers and everything in-between, the way we do things is constantly changing. After reading Dr. Michio Kaku’s essay Can Nanotechnology Create Utopia?, it transformed the limits thought only imagined in sci-fi films, and also compelled me to snapchat my mother back. With all the potential use of nanotechnology in the future, is it really possible to create a Utopia by means of technology?
Kaku predicts that perhaps in 100 years we may be able to put together nanotechnology in the form of a device called the replicator. Nanotechnology consists of tiny robots with the ability to manipulate molecules, which is exactly the intent. Put simply, the replicator, or molecular assembler, is meant to take one thing and turn it into another. He argues the root to a Utopia is the battle over scarcity, and wonders “what happens when you have infinite abundance? What happens when you simply ask and it comes to you?”. Well, the replicator would do just that. Those very tiny robots would break down materials from one thing and turn it into something you need; it’s the kind of stuff you see in movies! But actually, the idea came from the movie Star Trek, whose replicator was used to provide them what they needed. In the movies, it seems like such a useful and positive tool, but is that possible in our reality to use it as