How we manage the next revolution doesn’t have to be a societal nightmare with benefits eventually trickling down from the few to the many.

In reality, Big Tech is about global reach, global control, and a business model that seeks global power without local responsibility.

We have signed up to levels of surveillance dictators could only dream about – and struggle to enforce. And we’ve done it freely, willingly, actually without noticing, in the name of connectivity and ‘sharing’.

Paying less (then as now) was gender-based, with the added advantage of de-skilling a job.

We sell our time, we sell our labour, sometimes we have to sell our bodies, sometimes we have to get money in ways we would rather not. But we accept that there is a distinction between making money, however you do it – and being money.

Humans are motivated by community. We are interested in helping others. We aren’t just faking it – not just playing for ‘likes’. Compassion is real.

I think, therefore I am, is not only a mind-over-matter world-view; it separates us from everything that is not us. In the Descartes system that means the whole of the natural world.

Our social systems, our hierarchical obsessions, the increasing concentration of wealth and power among a very few – these things are driving our uncomfortable relationship with AI.

Art isn’t imitation – it is a kind of energy-wrestle. We’re trying to make visible the invisible world.