Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

by Robert Jackson Bennett

It makes things out of people so thoroughly, they…they don’t even know that they’ve become things.

“Think of the plantations, of slavery. It was to be a short-term fix to a short-term problem. But they grew dependent on it. It became a part of their way of life. And then, without ever realizing it, they couldn’t imagine a way to stop. The choices you make will change you over time, Sancia. Make sure they don’t change you into something you don’t recognize—or

Any given innovation that empowers the individual will inevitably come to empower the powerful much, much more.