Right, there are lots of things it could do, but the point is that these capabilities, or rather this potential, is merely necessary but not sufficient for actually following through with those nice things.
It doesn't matter what it can do when there is a truly scary amount of power and interest directed towards, e.g., making sure job loss (or unemployment in general) doesn't change too much. They'll make these things illegal before they'd let it get even close to messing something like that up!
There are already so many innovations and pieces of technology that could be helping instead of hurting. It should seem clear that the sheer capability of something could never be enough to change the state of affairs alone.
Sure the printing press was critical, but there was also a whole lot of blood shed and tumultuous times before the enlightened subject of the printing press could enjoy their new class and literacy.
It doesn't matter what it can do when there is a truly scary amount of power and interest directed towards, e.g., making sure job loss (or unemployment in general) doesn't change too much. They'll make these things illegal before they'd let it get even close to messing something like that up!
There are already so many innovations and pieces of technology that could be helping instead of hurting. It should seem clear that the sheer capability of something could never be enough to change the state of affairs alone.
Sure the printing press was critical, but there was also a whole lot of blood shed and tumultuous times before the enlightened subject of the printing press could enjoy their new class and literacy.