I want to be contrarian here and say I actually liked this article, whose main thrust I might summarise thusly: The future will not be as cool as technologists

I want to be contrarian here and say I actually liked this article, whose main thrust I might summarise thusly: The future will not be as cool as technologists imagine because in the contest of being what it could be, and being what its current inhabits want it to be (especially those in power), the latter wins It's nothing profound, but it's worth hearing again, and the arguments here underline that. Technology exists to serve humans, and humans haven't changed for a very long time, for better or worse. Any prediction that fails to take this into account will fail. It's an old lesson, but it seems we need to hear these old lessons again, and again, and again.