Is Technology Increasing Inequality?

Technology like smart phones has given billions of people world wide, among some of the poorest people in the world, access to information like never before. It really does the playing field. And yes, if you provide value to billions of people around the world, it's not surprising that you become a billionaire. But in doing so, you've helped so many people, you've actually levelled the playingField. This is a wonderful thing. We should be aprising but this is another fracture point between optimists and pessimists. Optimism says we can create knowledge in order to overcome the evils in society. Some of those evils are simply bad political ideas,. which many of the at the top