Title: Is it just me or are we heading into a future we don&#x27;t want? I find it weird as a software engineer but sometimes I feel like we&#x27;re building a tyrannical system of control. An all-encompassing tech monster where we&#x27;ll be plugged into the matrix by implants, a VR metaverse dominated by super sophisticated ad tech, all controlled by super intelligent AGI that will be owned by an ever richer and smaller tech elite, consuming culture that&#x27;s increasingly produced by AI (think DALL E and where that&#x27;s headed...). It sounds like hell on earth to me if I&#x27;m honest.<p>Sorry to be such a doomer, and maybe I&#x27;m getting old, but so much of where we heading these days fills me with quiet dread.<p>Before someone posts it, I&#x27;m well-aware of the Douglas Adam quote...<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that&#x27;s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you&#x27;re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.&quot;<p>Maybe this is me (I&#x27;m 40 something), but maybe, just maybe, I have a point? Talk me out of my despair Hacker News!
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