It's not like the "computer industry" did this, that industry was IBM and Siemens and Xerox and Cray. At the start it was all missile targeting systems and concentration camp organizers. A few upstarts happened to notice that miniaturization and cost reduction in industrial process was going to open up new target markets (small office / home office / individual use); the fact that this gave people new capabilities was (from a corporate perspective) an unfortunate, and temporary, side effect
We should, by all means, do our darnedest to reclaim that agency, to use computers to lift up rather than punch down, and we have proof positive that it *is* possible, and we should draw hope from that. But we also need to contextualize that we are not attempting to return to a past; that past was always built on the surface of a soap-bubble; we need to carry the fragments of that past forward into a more durable future and to see every scrap of liberation we manage as a miracle in its own right
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