The promise and threat of tech are one and the same. You can execute at scale very inexpensively.

Want to connect people who like transforming robot toys from Japan in the 80s? That’s cheap and simple for one person to set up.

Want to perform a wildly unethical human experiment at a hitherto unimaginable scale? Before, you’d have needed an army of TAs and months to recruit thousands of unsuspecting subjects. Now you just need some cloud credits and software that glues a few APIs together.