Technological determinism is a really scary idea when you think about it. If it's true though there's really nothing we can do about it.

It isn't true. Technology does have a role in shaping the stage that the human drama unfolds on, but it doesn't determine the course of events or the final destination. Individual people, groups, and society at large does.

Even in warfare, technology often plays a less decisive role than you might think. Differences in weapons capability matters less than differences in military competence. General Norman Schwarzkopf once said that the outcome of the Gulf war would have been unchanged even if the Coalition had switched weapons with the Iraqis.