Might just as well make us artificially happyfied super-vegetables, completely incapable of taking decisive action required in some unexpected crisis.

If you replace metalworking with the reward mechanism hacks Facebook et al use to optimize their success metrics, the threshold to a paperclip maximizer scenario gets considerably lower. Smartphones are bad enough, add MMI to the mix and all bets are off.

Tell a human 200 years ago that we can access any knowledge of the humanity within minutes, that we can travel at 900kph, that we can drink sea water. They'll tell you that we are indeed super-humans.

For a monthly fee of $999 no less

I already have a reasonable Adjusted Gross Income on my annual tax return. We already have an American Geological Institute. Have many Adventure Game Interpreters to choose from. Amplified Geochemical Imaging is a mature field. Hell, we even have some early contenders for proto Artificial General Intelligence if that is what you meant. But obviously we don't have Acronym Gist Inflation, and your text remains unqualified and vague.