Bad news: tech is making us more unequal. Good news: tech can make us more equal.

My latest Guardian column is Technology is making the world more unequal. Only technology can fix this; in it, I argue that surveillance and control technology allow ruling elites to hold onto power despite the destabilizing effects of their bad decisions — but that technology also allows people to form dissident groups and protect them from intrusive states.

The question, then, isn’t whether technology makes the world more equal and prosperous, but how to use technology to attain those...