It's not the tech but the attention capitalism and the assault on general purpose computing who screwed up the tech. The people, their greed and their desire for controlling others got in the way, unsurprisingly. This is becoming increasingly like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brazil or PKD novels. It's like those books and movies were actually field manuals for company C suites and governments, totalitarian or otherwise. And in Russia it's like Vladimir Sorokin novels are the field manual for the Kremlin.