If they can, they will.

Yeah but they are making a lot of money so…good luck with getting these psychopaths and narcissists to give a fuck.

Until Star Trek returns to technological optimism and the pursuit of human improvement, I’m not interested. Take your high school, technologically cromagnon melodramas and shove them up your ass.

It is the externalization of internal mental processes, causing technological dependencies for even basic thinking on the subject it issues for. It is fundamentally the same as being dependent on a parent for answers, as a child. At some point the parent must force the child into independence to become capable of functioning, to build the infrastructure to answer its own questions by memorizing, and later discerning, the answers.

If we should regress to, or raise our children with, such a dependency, we will become enslaved to those who control these technologies, making useful thought into a subscription service. Technology is incredibly empowering but at some point it becomes a necessity and we are beholden to those who control such things, spawning a techno feudalism in which we are as tied to a corporation’s technology as serfs were to the lord’s lands.