Slavery by science and technology?

The standard remedy to avoid enslavement by X is to learn how X works.

> ... so the rich elite and governments can control us better.

Education works for government too. You may not be interested in politics, but politics is certainly interested in you. The most powerful obstacles to a working democracy are people who think it's all a conspiracy beyond their understanding or control.

Meanwhile, in reality:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/yorktown.html

Quote: "The [Navy ship] Yorktown has been completely networked using Windows NT as part of the Navy’s 'SmartShip' program, to try and reduce the manpower requirements for large warships. However, because of an operator incorrectly entering a zero in an entry field, the system crashed and somehow corrupted the central database—as a result, the ship was dead in the water for two hours, and had to be towed back to port."

Wait, what? Someone types a zero into a database, as a result of which the system goes crazy and disables a U.S. Navy capital warship, rendering it inoperative and adrift at sea? This is your enslaving technology, your all-powerful technological cabal?