Ok still waiting on that better world bud
No transition period has ever addressed the problems we are talking about. If we want to allude to the trends of history than the only argument is that data tech will be new means for the same old bad. I think its very silly to argue that data will be used a weapon against corruption.Look at history, periods of transition are always unstable, it comes with the territory. A lot of people die the first decades of automobiles; then they draw up laws around seatbelts, and speeding limits, and driver's ed gets better, they start requiring licenses.
What do you do if you think all technology will only eventually be co-opted "for the same old bad"? Put a ban on innovation?
You need to stop making people defend stances they never took. It makes it impossible to have a coherent conversation.That's a rough stance. It's sorta like believing artistic innovation is bad because it'll eventually go through the same cycle of popularization and pastiche. Man, what a bleak view. Historically it doesn't seem to have panned out, given that everyone here would rather be alive in the present than in historical eras