Technology and governance (interesting that we use 'program' in both contexts) are excellent insofar as they enhance our liberty. If they gadgetry advances the

Technology and governance (interesting that we use 'program' in both contexts) are excellent insofar as they enhance our liberty. If they gadgetry advances the "be your own President" concept, it is useful. David Wheeler famously said: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." But all of that indirection implies more bureaucratic policy, state (or State, depending on whether it's technology or governance) and an encroachment on individuality in the name of a single, narrow vision. Topics such as corporate policy, voting, transportation, and medical gadgets get at the trade-offs involved in maximally automating and extinguishing the entropy from everyone at the expense of individual liberty. PREDICTION: these over-managed efforts become Towers of Babel, as is human, and promptly collapse, as is human. The effect of technology may be to support a higher tower and shallower collapse, but the tension between the individual and the group is the only consistency.