We won't be the Atoms Family forever. In 1946 big companies were still managed by the seat of the pants. Bob McNamara changed all that. The Xerox copy machine was famously more successful than anyone imagined it would be. There has never been a neutral technology.
All technologies are power.
The myth for Silicon Valley starts with the discovery of the transistor. Perhaps it's true that the World Wide Web will end not with a bang but a whimper. A smell of dung and honeysuckle and mowing wafts up from the farm below, with the soft baaing of sheep. We have not yet understood consciousness or intelligence, but there is no reason to suppose that these are anything but the workings of physics and chemistry within the brain. As far as we can tell, there is nothing in the fundamental laws of nature that will suggest any special role for intelligence in the plan of things.