The implications of this new way of seeing technology—as an autonomous, evolving entity that continues to progress whoever is in charge—are startling. People are pawns in a process. We ride rather than drive the innovation wave. Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa. Short of bumping off half the population, there is little that we can do to stop it from happening, and even that might not work.
Would we have modern machinery, and space travel without Newton's laws?
Modern electronics without the discoveries of Faraday, Maxwell, and others?
Computers without quantum mechanics?
GPS sattelites without general relativity?
Unforeseen world changing invention X without the discovery of the Higgs boson?
If you thought the answer to any of these was yes, then you probably took this article seriously. While he makes a valid point that technology will continue to grow in the absence of scientific input, it will be severely limited. Science and technology create a positive feedback loop with each other, and if one ceases to grow, the other will follow suit after some time.