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We let the rich and powerful have their way with our technology too. Every time we invent something good, they twist it; they use it to enrich themselves and immiserate the rest of us. Can cheap "green" technology be different? It could give us more freedom and a better quality of life. It could help sub-Saharan Africa get free of its grinding poverty. But I'm sure it can be used against us too. I don't know how yet. But I wouldn't have believed you if you told me, in 1995, how the Internet would be turned against us. I was thinking only of a Wikipedian utopia, not Brexit, Q-Anon, and anti-vaxxers.