A Good Witch/Bad Witch Story of Big Tech

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The tech revolution that has bowed our heads to our smartphones and unfurled reality onto the virtual plane is imbued with all the mythic dualism of good and evil. One side is a light-dappled frontier of beautiful freedom; the other side an inky, rigidified specter of enslavement and exploitation. Sound extreme?

Granted, this harsh moral polarity is not an observance typically coughed forth…