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> high tech ... I think the time for revolution is over.

Ironically, not even 10 years ago we were having exactly the opposite conversation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

Not in the country that is relevant to this post.

“This time it will be different.”

The six most costly words in history.

Maybe Skynet is already here.

Concomitantly the tolerance for abuse has dropped rapidly. It used to be the government was racist and often genocidal, and the public tolerated or participated. Nowadays you cannot shoot and kill some protesters nearly so blithely. The state is armed to the teeth because the fear is greater: the populace also has magnified powers.