IMO, a good life is one with purpose and meaning. People have had these in the past, and these days, many substitute the means to happiness (money, notoriety, power, libido, etc) with actual happiness itself. [0]

I personally find a good life to be one of gratitude, harmony with nature and of rich human relationships with family and others, where the goal is to create happiness for myself and others equally.

How this is done is different for each person, and mostly irrespective of technology.

But it gets back to human relationships. I have always viewed technology as liberative and supportive,[1] not manipulative and divisive as it has gone horribly wrong in the hands of power and money-hungry sociopaths.

There's a Buddhist belief that "It's not the money and influence; it's what you do with them that matters".