agreed, for the most part. my concern about your enthusiasm for ‘technological liberation’, though, is that the internet/web (and the devices/apps which evolve around and within it) are no more genuinely democratic than the political systems they sit on top of. it’s a platform built on capitalism, so why would its gatekeepers relinquish control? surveillance, net neutrality, we have a long way to go before technology is truly empowering and not another mechanism for control and commodification.

and the brave new world of an automated workforce can only exist if the now-not-working populations are otherwise subsidised (or living costs are removed) which again goes against the never ending onslaught of capitalism. basic income is a progressive model, but few capitalist govts will endorse it for the same reasons they dismantle all forms of welfare.