[happy_tentacles]

Brings to mind a dark dystopian corner where this could take us - as imagined by Stanislaw Lem in his 1971 "The Futurological Congress" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress

It is a short and highly recommended read.

[a_imho]

I also recommend The Congress (2013) movie which is based on the novel.