Technology Enabling Authoritarianism

It all comes down to who controls the tech. Rest assured it won't be set free for the greater good of all.

It pains me to see that power-hungry people used most techies as useful idiots to implement their own goals - how many politicians with dirty hands are now getting on board of prime tech companies? They finally understood what technology can offer to them. It seems like the end game is who is going to control everything - those types can finally see the time when technology is sufficiently advanced to control every aspect of our lives. It seems like technology would enable a special caste above

technologists don't rule the world; they're the primary instruments by which others rule.Well, yes, of course. But there's no alternative.

That is certainly a chilling thought and definitely not an unlikely turn of events. Society seems to need some level of governance in order to function, but who can we trust to govern for the people and not turn to tyranny? Technology is such a beacon of light for advancement but also so dangerous in the wrong hands.

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We thought that access to better technology would make people more free, but there are many ways it can make us less free instead. First through differential control of technology; whoever has control of some new tech will be able to use it to disempower others. Second is through robbing us of agency; technology can make it too easy for us to do things we don't want to do, causing us to do them against our will. At some point we will need to confront these issues.

I think the article is wrong.Fears of Technology are really fear of technology misuse. Sure current system is capitalism, but you could construct a similar argument for any other system.E.g. in contemporary authoritarian communism with same tech level, you could get automated societal purges.

The internet is at least as much dangerous as it is useful. Technology changes social power dynamics, often the people that enable it will design it in a way that benefits their own power dynamic.Think of it this way, let's say a fascist genocidal group become rulers of that city/country, or let's say Google's intentions change and Google becomes many times more evil than it is now. Will this technology preserve the power of the people to nit just freely express their op

What?This was obvious. The only people who didnt see this in tech were the tech optimists.Anyone else who has had to deal with humanity at large has warned that whatever was created would be used to help the powerful retain power.The time for revolution was back in the 1990s. But that got lost in the baggage and dreams of being a unicorn.This is just reversion to the mean, if anyone missed this, they havent developed the right balance of cynicism and optimism which helps identify the

I'm about as technical as it is possible to get. I fucking hate technology these days. It all sucks, it tries to insert itself between everything human and sane, and extract value for its masters. People are serfs in closed silos. They own nothing, just like the serfs of old: not their farmlands or cattle (laptops, phones and data), nor their homes (accounts in the 'cloud' subject to AI shutdown without human recourse).It will take a while of it getting progressively worse befo