1. Tech Amplifies Power
Tools magnify intent. Without checks, systems entrench those who already hold resources and influence.
When we say UTOPIA, we mean human choices — amplified.
Technology doesn't arrive with built-in ethics. It scales values: it can liberate and it can exclude, it can heal and it can surveil. This page collects the reasons we should treat tech with caution, care, and democratic stewardship.
2. Not Everyone Benefits
Design choices and access barriers create winners and losers — often along existing social divides.
3. Environmental & Human Cost
Behind every data center and device lie resource extraction, energy use, and labor — costs that aren't free.
Surveillance at scale
Data-driven monitoring can deter crime but also chill speech and target minorities when used without oversight.
Algorithmic bias
Machine learning trained on biased data reproduces and sometimes amplifies discrimination in hiring, lending, and policing.