It's kind of fun to see you recognize that there are assumptions at play, and then do the same yourself. Technology as a threat. What if the threat is not the technology, but the west's inability to keep their resources from being stolen by shareholders and billionaires? Because that is what is holding us back from developing and making the future ourselves. we just watch all of our resources go to infighting, incompetent management egos, and mega-yachts and fighting progress.

I'm not making any assumptions, I'm going by what I see as the predominant narrative regarding any new technology in the west. All I see is people moaning how AI or robots will end us all. Whether they're referring to us collectively or just to the west is irrelevant.

My point is that people living under the dictatorship of capital have a negative view of technology because technological progress isn't used in public interest. It's used by the oligarchs for oppression and surveillance, and hence people fear that any new technology will be used to repress them further.

We can contrast this with the mood I'm China where most people are optimistic regarding technological progress because they see technology improving their lives with things like high speed trains, amazing public infrastructure, factory automation, and so on.