Someone familiar with OG Lain please enlighten me.

This is a snippet from project's site.

Technology is not the goal. It is a means of expression.

serial experiments lain also used cutting-edge digital expression for its time, and it caused both praise and criticism.

If, in 1998, people had feared new technology as “too early” or “wrong,” I do not think that work could have been born.

Where can I read more about this "praise and criticism"? Cause this seems to be one of the arguments for AI uses in production.