Cyberpunk was great to get 'hackers' on board with techno capitalism. Turns out most techies know more about tech than capitalism. The society-changing systems

Cyberpunk was great to get 'hackers' on board with techno capitalism. Turns out most techies know more about tech than capitalism. The society-changing systems will never be broken wide open while most care about them. It's going to be the same with AI and VR/AR as it was with smartphones, the internet, and computers. A few dozen people control the internet. Open source phones never took off. And new computers are exponentially more powerful keeping the open stuff forever in the children's pool. And I say this as someone who loves Neuromancer. But the "gadgets" are like playthings compared to the closed tech. It's trickle down effects. Not even guerilla warfare - it's the children's pool.