Or alternatively, "*technology will be used to extract profit, or preferably rent, from you and constrain your agency even further than it already is."
Most likely this was always the case, just a bit bigger and obvious now. I comfort myself with the belief that the number of cool and powerful tools released under properly free licenses can only grow, even if they proportion shrinks.
No longer do we buy software, it’s for rent.
Which is why I use FreeBSD.