Raw LLM Responses

Indeed! Just want to highlight another way of thinking about this, which is considering _what_ exactly is shaping the trajectory of technology as I think it's easy to abstract this away as simply "natural" or somehow inescapable otherwise and not the result of deliberate action by an increasingly small group of people (as highlighted) for their perceived benefit, and that direction is determined by the undergirding material organization in terms of ownership/control along with its continued dominion over the planet at quite literally all other costs (like say, _destroying_ that very planet; "externalities" to put on the neoclassical econ/neoliberal ideological blindfold) and perpetuation aka _capitalism._ Looking at something like Chile's Project Cybersyn for example, we can see something like a horizon of an alternative use for technology rather than solely for maximizing profit and mediating continued social inertia/bondage for its own sake at this point, of course this potential was annihilated after the _first_ 9/11 in 1973 with US-backed Pinochet's overthrow of democratically-elected Allende, sadly such "regime change" not at all an isolated incident. For a historical juxtaposition/example to maybe triangulate I'm rambling about, namely that this small group and their ideological perception of interests is materially shaped and reified by the undergirding "mode of production", the steam engine was invented in the Roman Empire but used as a stupid gimmick party-trick rather than utilized as the huge industrial technological advancement that it has been, which I would argue comes precisely from the way our social/material reality is organized at the root. In other words, turns out when you have slaves, that technology is seen entirely differently by the limited amount of people with the opportunity to even experience it. The totalizing point here is that the mode of production that organizes our material reality and social relationships also changes our interaction to technology as well as each other, so maybe our phones could even be utilized as something more than mobile porn devices if we change our structural relationships that implicitly dictate how they are used. And as a bonus, maybe we'll stop mass-shooting each other out of obvious manufactured precarity, economic and social. _“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”_ - some guy _“Once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the… automatic system of machinery… set in motion by an automaton, a moving power that moves itself; this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages.”_ - “The Fragment on Machines” in The Grundrisse _"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently."_ - the late great David Graeber Aaaaaaaanyway, sorry for screed of consciousness here lol, hopefully any of that made sense, the point I guess is _"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."_ *_Socialism or [continued] barbarism._*