We'll have an AI with a 200+ IQ and millions of children excluded from a good public education because the technocrats redirected funds to vouchers for their own private schools.
We'll have an AI that can design and 3D print any mechanical or electronic device, while billions of people around the world live their entire lives on the brink of starvation because their countries don't have the initial funding to join the developed world - or worse - are subjugated as human automatons to preserve the techno utopia.
We'll have an AI that colonizes the solar system and beyond, extending the human ego as far as the eye can see, with no spiritual understanding behind what it is doing or the effect it has on the natural world or the dignity of the life within it.
I could go on.. forever. My lived experience has been that every technological advance crushes down harder and harder on people like me who are just behind the curve due to past financial mistakes and traumas that are difficult to overcome. Until life becomes a never-ending series of obligations and reactions that grow to consume one's entire psyche. No room left for dreams or any personal endeavor. An inner child bound in chains to serve a harsh reality devoid of all leadership or real progress in improving the human condition.
I really hope I'm wrong. But which has higher odds: UBI or company towns? Free public healthcare or corrupt privatization like Medicare Advantage? Jubilee or one trillionaire who owns the world?
As it stands now, with the direction things are going, I think it's probably already over and we just haven't gotten the memo yet.