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Successful technologists are the new "ruling class". In this digital world order, money and power are concentrated in the hands of a few.

Each technological innovation produces the potential not just for cyber-crime, but for manipulating the way we lead our lives.

imagine you take a driverless taxi. Without explanation, it lingers in front of billboards during your journey or forces you to a particular convenience store if you need to pick up something. Is that very different to search engines reading your mind through your click-habits or Amazon telling you, often accurately, what you really want to read next?