@erikaharris you're pretty much right.
@lasseehlers seems to be confusing technology and the infrastructure derived from it with technology. That's incorrect.

Technology is, has, and always will be invented by people. Groups (states) might finance it but it's the individuals that do the innovation and creation.

Fun fact...both governments AND groups are getting more powerful...however individuals are getting more powerful at a faster rate. If the trend continues at some point individuals (or small groups) will be as powerful, and eventually MORE powerful, than governments.

It's already happening. Today's multi-billionaires are more powerful than many nations of the not too distant past.

The rich are getting richer...and the poor are getting richer too...