Should computers serve humans, or should humans serve computers?

Nolan Lawson considers dystopian and utopian possibilities for the future, with a gentle suggestion that front-line technologists have some agency here. What kind of world do you want to help build?

The core question we technologists should be asking
ourselves is: do we want to live in a world where computers
serve humans, or where humans serve computers?

Or to put it another way: do we want to live in a world
where the users of technology are in control of their
devices? Or do we want to live in a world where the
owners of technology use it as yet another means of
control over those without the resources, the knowledge,
or the privilege to fight back?

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