Yes there were prophecies of doom in the industrial revolution and in the shorter term we have adapted, traditional jobs based on a rural economy were lost and new industrial jobs were created. They were lost in the West in more recent years of course, now we are reliant on administrative and financial work, based on technologies which will also become variously redundant.
In the longer term, though, the industrial revolution has permanently damaged the planet's sustainability, partly through physical destruction, partly through enabling human population explosions and their hugely increased consumption.
The Millenium Bug is often trotted out as an example of doom that never came. It was not destructive because tech experts anticipated it and worked to solve the problem. It was a simple issue compared to the tangled complexities of digital and global internet-based technologies we are increasingly reliant on but rarely understand in any detail. Digital tech continues to impact the natural environment.
Like industrial technologies, we're adapting to digital technologies, scrambling to preserve our 'lifestyles', but we're just responding, most workers have as little say as ever in the direction anything is going. As pp have pointed out, social media and social tech have had some profound effects on society, many negative.
AI is replacing jobs, as pp have detailed, and the consequences of that are still unpredictable. The same issue arises as it did in the industrial revolution - the rapid de-skilling and therefore disempowering of the workforce. In my own line of work (teaching & researching, HEI) the effects of complex digital technologies is both increasing access to information and, with the popular use of AI, interfering with the ability of individuals to gather, assess and verify it. Creative technology skills students were basing careers on ten years ago have gone. The pace of change is remarkable.
There is nothing simply 'progressive' about AI. Our perspectives on its benefits are inevitably short term.