“Technology is a death threat to feudalist war lordism which typifies predatory capitalism and monopolist cartels.”
Seems rather like predatory capitalism and monopolist cartels are adapting to, and finding ways to use this glorious technology for thier own ends. They are exploiting the hell out of it to gain or retain power and control, and the masses are the pawns, as always. There’s no shiny new peace and love world on the horizon. Sadly, the ugly realities perpetrated by highly adaptive predators, ‘warlords’ and government hacks are in the news every day.
Good or bad, Microsoft changed our lives dramatically and all for the better. Leftist and people who hate MS argue that MS didn't and don't need the billions of dollars that it “stole” from its competitors. I suggest that if MS had not been as aggressive, we would not have the consumer technology that we have today. Actually, commoditizing technology has helped the military, too and science, everything.
There is a balance of course.