A lot of magazines try to structure their stories as fables (Forbes?).  We like that when the fable aligns with our morality ;-).

FWIW, it sounds like this story was structured as a gee-whiz fable of the future, when we know it should have stronger shades of grey.

(there are gee-whiz stories out ther, PO just isn't one of them)

That's a very telling point, odograph. Things that make you go "hmm..."