Love your optimistic conclusion and clarity here. Of course, all technology should be subservient to ethical human goals and well-being - the common good, so to speak.

Sadly both the nightmarish Western hegemony and the Muslims elites of the Arabic world eg Gulf states have joined hands, and are using their wealth and other resources for the fascistic end of ensuring slave-like working and living conditions for the majority, just as the Western Empire has done over the previous 500 years.