Comment Re:Creators of technology (Score 1) 103
I think many of them do understand what they are. Calling a surveillance software company Palantir is very self-aware. The rest is spot-on, though. The sociopathic kids grew up on dystopian science fiction of the 1980s, but unlike average people they read it and thought "what a great idea". And now they are adults and try to implement the dystopia they liked so much. And they basically admit it themselves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...