Technology is an amplifier of things we’re already doing. It’s easy to think of all the amazing things people are capable of, and imagine that new technology wi

Technology is an amplifier of things we’re already doing. It’s easy to think of all the amazing things people are capable of, and imagine that new technology will help those amazing things flourish. But people are also capable of unspeakable cruelty. Depending on your outlook on humanity, that insight may or may not give you sympathy for neo-Luddites.