We face a growing array of problems that involve technology: nuclear weapons, data privacy concerns, using bots/fake news to influence elections. However, these are, in a sense, not several problems. They are facets of a single problem: the growing gap between our power and our wisdom

It is really easy for someone with the power and the education to manipulate those who lack one or both of those things (and that is still the majority of the world today, as it was throughout the history).