Many things, of course, from Matrix etc. movies to what not. In terms of capitalism and real - material - economy of energy use per capita, there is dialectic between quantities and qualities that could be further analyzed. Though Marx and Proudhon could not predict fossile capitalism of oil and natural gas in the age of coal (to which we are returning, alas), they were both well aware of industrial capitalization and luddite labor reaction to it. In that respect the quantitative increase of level of industrialization aka Rise of the Robots means qualitatively increased alienation of people, collective insanity of technocratic civilization on suicide path. Heidegger is one the most important and deep cultural critics of Western technocratic metaphysics, tracing the Fall back to Greeks and Aristotle, but Marx despite his (or Engel's?) historical materialism remains captive of technocratic metaphysics.
And much better than Heidegger is Charles Chaplin's anarchistic Modern Times:
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