You can absolutely work to redefine what “progress” means, who technology will serve, and how it’s bounty and harms are distributed. If you live in a Western d

You can absolutely work to redefine what “progress” means, who technology will serve, and how it’s bounty and harms are distributed. If you live in a Western democracy, you’re reaping the benefit of a series of such struggles from the 17th century forward. The Enlightenment, various democratic revolutions, labor organization, etc. The fatalism, the “unchallengeable trajectory” solipsism that categorizes so much of the thinking around tech is the thing that’s new.