President Dwight Eisenhower Warned Of Becoming ‘Captive Of A Scientific-Technological Elite’

James Corbett provides an accurate analogy between the Military-Industrial Complex and the modern Information-Industrial Complex. President Dwight Eisenhower warned of both in his 1961 farewell address to the nation:
In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Indeed, the American people are captive to such a scientific-technolo