💡 Modern dystopia - AI, Metaverse
❓ Idea
Write an essay about:
- How the “metaverse” compares to “pleasure island” from Pinocchio
- Include the “Experience machine” thought experiment
- does the opinion on the experience machine differ from younger - older people?
- Many problems that everyone knows about (climate change e.g.) but people seem to willfully ignore
- feeling of loss of control
- mere spectators in an apocalypse movie
- Big tech companies as the modern rulers
- Rise of technology powered authoritarian regimes
- How media portrays the modern dystopia 1