This is an excellent oberservation but I would point out that all of your examples are of one group having a large information technology advantage over another. I think the situation <i>could</i> be different as very powerful IT becomes as widespread and inexpensive as seems to be the trend. Perhaps there is some point where the worst IT is good enough that it&#x27;s hard to parlay a tech advantage into any form of oppression and at that point it&#x27;s a tool for equality and decentralization.