Our ancestors 133 years ago saw this. Our descendants 100 or so years from now will see this again. It is often said that advanced technology makes it imperative to vest control of institutions in the hands of a small managerial group. That is perfect nonsense. What automation can do first of all is to relieve people of an enormous amount of stupid labor, thus freeing them for other things.
Computers also make possible a very rapid information flow.
Everybody could be put in possession of vastly more information and more relevant information than they have now. Of course, that is not how this technology is actually used. It is used for destructive purposes. From an interview with New Left Review, reprinted in Language and Politics, page 147. Now it's full night, clear, moonless and filled with stars, which are not eternal as we once thought, which are not where we think they are.