The first paragraph reminds me of the "UNABOMber manifesto" which I also
found interesting. As a leftist myself I think the politics related parts of
it are laughably misguided however but his points about the nature of
technological advance seem pretty spot on to me. Also I generally don't
condone blowing people to pieces though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
For a somewhat less explosive approach there is also Winner's Do Artifacts
Have Politics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langdon_Winner#Technology_and_politics
I think these are all important questions which we as a society should be
asking ourselves, especially in a time like this when the technological
advancement is more rapid than ever and pretty unanimously seen as a force
for good.
