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No, absolutely and emphatically not! Underlying this question is an assumption very common in tech circles, but nonetheless fundamentally flawed: that social problems can be solved by technological advances.

Sure, technology can help implement solutions to social problems, but it will not arrive at these solutions of its own accord. That is because technology only ever magnifies our inherent human capabilities, it doesn't give us new ones. A case in point: Internet and the social media have made communication and the exchange of information as easy as never before. We can use this power to keep in touch with distant friends or take free classes from a university on another continent. We can also use it to spread fake news and organize terrorist plots. But it is not "the Internet" doing all this, it is the humans sitting at either end of the data cable. Technology is not of itself good, nor is it evil. It is merely an enabler and an amplifier.

Technology is about optimizing metrics. (Say, time spent doing a certain task, or money invested to achieve a given aim.) Politics is about finding out what the problem is, agreeing that it is a problem worth solving and then discussing what a suitable metric is to tackle this problem. (For example: high housing prices may be considered a problem. But do you tackle this by raising the spending power of your citizens or by lowering the average rent?)

Politics is about humans, and that is something technology in itself can never be.