I do not tend to start from the motive of malicious manipulation. I attribute a large part of technological progress to human curiosity. The human being who always seeks his activity in finding solutions and therefore likes to be confronted with problems.
Buddhists call all this "ignorance", because unconsciousness leads to having desires all the time. To want to have control over people and matter, I see it similarly, is a mass phenomenon that can spread unconsciously in a person the less he knows himself. His ignorance of himself - his ignorance towards a non-existent or fixed self - leads him to impulsive behaviour and mental aberrations. I do not exclude myself here, because I am still far from being able to track down my unconscious impulses, my penetrating worldviews all so exactly at the moment of their emergence.
There is a lot of work involved and a continuous discipline to develop a will that inevitably experiences the already decided biological nature, the uninfluenceable events of the past, the cosmic causes of my existence.
As raised Christian I react very strongly to words like God and Satan and feel provoked beyond measure. But since I practice such discipline, I can bear the responsibility you give me by using these strong associations. But if I were less mindful, I would get involved with you in a fruitless debate about it and feel an anger that would make me your enemy. Fortunately, I am willing to be your friend.