One of the reasons that feudalism ended was the evolution of military technology. When dominant technology was scarce, it-- armor, warhorses, swords, nutrition

One of the reasons that feudalism ended was the evolution of military technology. When dominant technology was scarce, it-- armor, warhorses, swords, nutrition, training-- was the dominion of feudal lords, which gave them real power over the peasantry. The crossbow, and then the pike, gunpowder, and advances in organization & discipline such as those coming out of the old Swiss Confederacy and Gustavus Adolphus's Sweden changed everything. The fact that sovereign power relied on sizeable armies of citizenry to wage war was politically enabling for the peasants. Combined with increased individual agency from economic output due to pre-industrial and industrial advances in tech, and the stage is set for democracy. Some Swiss still carry their swords, now heirlooms, to the polls. If they did not have swords, they would not have polls. If technology now removes the economic and military agency of the individual, it will also remove his political agency.