That is an obscure comparison. Toilets fulfilled a very real issue. When did you last get cholera?

Most tech does not serve any real utility like this. Beyond generating money through increasingly deceitful means, what does Google do nowadays? The search engine has helped turn the internet into white noise. It has essentially become the obstacle it was designed to bypass.

If it wasn't for extremely targeted and manipulative advertising a lot of tech products wouldn't have a place in the world at all.