Can anyone help me break down this essay question?

[Marnie]

"Mankind in now a slave to technology. It creates the problems which are destroying our planet".

I need to do an essay for a subject in university and i've never been a good one for starting an essay. I need to write an annotated bibliography by next week citing 8 authors that back up my claims.

Trouble is it seems like such a deep question to me so I'm having a bit of trouble starting. I was thinking of doing social media addiction and how society is losing its ability to communicate but my lecture said "boring, overdone", so no.

So I started to think maybe about how society is losing our 'life skills' and how that may be our downfall (like who knows how to change a tyre anymore?) but i don't know! Can anybody help!