Even though technologies have always been useful for promoting lifelong learning, in recent decades, the use of generative Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT has come to radically influence the way we perceive learning, learner and educator. Technology positivists assume that newer technologies will enhance lifelong learning whereas its critics argue that the learning gap that currently exists will widen further because, given the existing global inequalities, its benefits will continue to be disproportionate. Nested in an unequal history of technological innovation, this paper investigates the potentials and limitations of learning technologies in enhancing lifelong learning. The paper argues that digital inequality, artificial community, and epistemic exclusion are three major limitations of learning technologies; therefore, they have almost no resonance with life-wide and life-deep approaches to lifelong learning. The findings are crucial for setting post-2030 global goals on education.