Comment by beefnugs
Yes that is something special. The only reason star wars successfully created cute robots is because of a complete lack of technical knowledge.
And the only reason every tech based scifi story is interesting is because nobody bothers to consider that all tech leads to absolute fascism and tracking of every living being in existence way way before the creation of the really powerful interesting stuff
So the basic desire of the ruling class is to definitively control the underclass.
And as the owners of tech (and everything else), the ultimate purpose of tech is to fulfill this desire.