It's not that the Internet is repeating Star Wars. It's that Star Wars was a fictitious allegory of what power and capabilities provide, and should serve as a

It's not that the Internet is repeating Star Wars. It's that Star Wars was a fictitious allegory of what power and capabilities provide, and should serve as a warning of what might happen ... or is happening. (I'd hesitate to call The Force a technology per se, though there are other technologies portrayed in the series ... little of which I've watched since Ep. 4-6.) Technology is a force multiplier, genenerally, and new technologies, after an initial period of disruption, tend to either be adopted by existing power elites, or form new power elites, often a combination of both. I've only come to realise this myself relatively late in the game. It's instructive to revisit much of the early writing of the Internet. Much of that was strongly hagiographic and deludedly optimistic, but there were exceptions. Andrew J. Shapiro's The Control Revolution (1999) got far more right than wrong. <https://www.worldcat.org/title/41076267 https://www.worldcat.org/title/41076267> <https://archive.org/details/controlrevolutio0000shap https://archive.org/details/controlrevolutio0000shap> <http://libgen.vg/book/index.php?md5=9CCE57E117DD4213F395FE0722352BF7 http://libgen.vg/book/index.php?md5=9CCE57E117DD4213F395FE07...>