CONCLUSIONS:

Overall, Cudworth does a fine job at explaining the urgent need for growing decentralization of the control of the direction of technology from huge monopolies to smaller enterprises. In doing so, the issues created by capitalism, ICTs, and agricultural technology could be limited and these technological advancements can be better known for doing good than bad. A sole reason why the inequalities presented in this book are still occurring is because the people simply do not know they are. The government holds too many secrets from the public, and if society was aware of the disparities and risks that are associated with new technology, then there would be a bigger strive towards more positivity when it comes to the new digital age. I believe there is yet hope that socially and culturally appropriate technologies harnessed for increasing equality and social justice is indeed possible; however, I support the notion that great social movements are in need in doing so. In closing, this book taught me that the concepts that are often looked at only as the engines for our world’s growth are also the drawbacks as to why the people, and even the environment, are treated so unfairly across the boundaries. The debate for future progression will certainly be a difficult one in the next decades to come.