No, it is not that we WANTED change only by technology, it is that our Federal Constitution was designed by the rich aristocrats to STIFLE political change and to DISEMPOWER the voters. Americans have no option to change america politically because our Founding Fiends illegally installed a federal constitution that would thwart political change.
To quote James Madison, "the father of the constitution, the constitution would not allow the voters to "unite and discover their common interest."
Madison et al did this by creating a governmental structure that would increase the number of factions in the political districts by enlarging the political districts.