Paul Craig Roberts always presents interesting pieces, even where he is wrong, at least, as I see it. But, on the digital revolution, I must agreed that this is totally inconsistent with human freedom, as he argued. That may be hard for some computer systems obsessed people to accept, but the argument seems to be correct to me. The level of oppression we now experience is due to the power that AI and It gives to the controlling elites; they do the surveillance now because they can, that the technology exists. In the past they had to make do with allowing some freedoms, since they could not control everything, but the expanding power if IT and AI now allows it, and in the future this social control will grow, directly proportional to the growth in the power of AI and IT. The few crumbs that have dropped from the table of the monsters, such as the internet to do articles like this, does not over-ride the initial oppression produced by the expanded power of the elites.