Is There Something Other Than Ubiquitous Surveillance?

Authoritarian nation states are developing technology to make them more powerful. Huge corporations, mostly western, are becoming more powerful than nation states. Only groups that develop and deploy expedential tech toward some long term vision have a chance of directing the future. So how do we build a society that is stable and not distopic? How do we employ the full suite of digital and emergent technologies?, asks Julian Zelizer.