I'm not exactly sure if it's a "strongly held belief that I've changed my mind about", but lately I have come to suspect that technological advances may have an

I'm not exactly sure if it's a "strongly held belief that I've changed my mind about", but lately I have come to suspect that technological advances may have an inevitable (or nearly inevitable) effect of fostering centralization and concentration of power. Note that this is one on which I deeply hope that I'm wrong! And I may well be, as the "concentration of power" effect is - I believe - unlikely to be strictly a consequence of the technology qua technology, but is rather an effect fostered by the confluence of the technology itself and our legal/social/political system(s). And the latter are potentially subject to change in ways that would allow technological advances to benefit everyone without creating ever increasingly concentrated pockets of power and leading us inexorably towards a cyberpunk dystopia. That latter point is one on which I deeply hope I am correct.