pcr nails it in this essay about 'our' digital future; 

 

The Digital Revolution: Humanity’s Greatest Enemy 

Paul Craig Roberts 

For several or more years I have emphasized that the digital revolution and artificial intelligence were, along with nuclear weapons, the worst of human mistakes.  

People have gained an understanding of the destructive power of nuclear weapons, but they have been indoctrinated into seeing the digital revolution and artificial intelligence as a great boost to human productivity. Being promised more take-home money blinds them to the trap.

The digital revolution allows a far more effective control over the minds and behavior of populations than  Big Brother has in George Orwell’s 1984. The digital revolution makes possible the perfect Police State. People, of course, are too busy scrolling their cell phones to notice.

Another  concern is the security of information, One source of insecurity is that reportedly one EMF can wipe out the cloud where information is stored,  In analogue days if one library burned down, thousands of others had the same information.  Today the informations is in electronic form in the cloud. There is no backup.

Many years ago Mad Comics presented a society that existed in leisure thanks to computers who ran everything. Then one day the system broke, and no one knew how it worked or how to fix it, and they all died.............more.........