Although reliable systems may be evolved rather than designed and tested, these are under even less control. Technology that improves sales and marketing tracks consumer patterns, so individual activities are no longer anonymous. Web posting of sex offenders who have been released from prison is a stark choice between public safety and personal privacy. Even the computer and communication technology that Y2K threatened was seen as critical for society. Any advance that does not immediately propagate to the entire population creates a divide of opportunity and access.
Some information is false or deceptive.
Even true and important information shares the space with so much other equally worthy information that it can be very hard to find what is pertinent. This would, of course, forfeit the many benefits of technology, like fresh food year round, inexpensive products, electric light, and hospitals. Napster vs. the recording industry is an evaluation currently in the courts. Napster-like technologies may be resilient to any attack a court order could sponsor, however. It is likely that the government discouraged laborsaving technology because many thousands of idle slaves would cause revolution.