💡 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

Footnotes

  1. The Existential Modern Dystopia of Arcane and Squid Game | Hello Future Me