If we could rewind Earth's history and let civilization evolve again 100 separate times, how often do you think we'd end up with a technological landscape similar to today?

By "similar," I mean things like smartphones becoming an extension of ourselves, social media driven by engagement algorithms, clickbait, outrage-based content, recommendation feeds, political polarization, surveillance capitalism, and a handful of giant tech platforms dominating the internet.

Or could another version of humanity develop very differently? Maybe we'd deliberately favor stationary devices over always connected smartphones to preserve attention, privacy, and our relationship with nature. Perhaps we'd optimize technology for well-being rather than engagement and growth.

Which aspects of today's tech ecosystem do you think are inevitable consequences of human psychology and incentives, and which were contingent on the particular path history happened to take?