The Californian Ideology

After reading The California Ideology I just had a few thoughts about technology and the Western world. The Calfiorian Ideology is supposedly a new wave of democracy, creating various ways in which people can express their opinions online for the world to see. Its unfortunate though that the only opinions we see on a day to day basis is of those in California, Hollywood, and the large corporations that control our technology. Our media is essentially being used as a way to rule the masses, a new way which targets every person in our society. We all have access to incredible amounts of technology but at our own loss as we are constantly needing to keep up with it. The western world however benefits from technology to a point where we cannot live without it. So is technology being accessible to all moving us forward or holding us as a whole back?