This does not come out of "technology" - it comes out of lazy journalism and a general refusal to fact check. Jonathan Haidt (of New York University) is making his millions with a book that fraudulently misrepresents almost all the research quoted inside (most generous take is that, like the laziest grad student, he simply read article titles). That book has received massive promotion via supposedly reputable publications - The New York Times and The New Yorker in particular. A dozen years ago, the same academic fever spread around (University of Pennsylvania's) Angela Duckworth's "Grit Narrative." When fraud is so celebrated by so many, what can we expect?

Note: Haidt's book was (effectively) peer-reviewed and was slammed as a fraud. It was published despite that.