We will have absolute surveillance of everything. Governments will push hard for a centralised digital id and tie that to a centralised banking digital currency, and all ur online activity. They will continue to attempt to kill cash in that process. They will make truly anonymous crypto like XMR completely illegal. Thus the death of financial freedom, freedom of movement, and freedom of speech. They will also use this to limit what u can buy with ur money to fit within some carbon budget (while not having said carbon budget for corporations).

The hedge funds will own everything housing, farming, medical, cars, etc etc. They will continue to squeeze the middle class by raising the prices of these things to ensure nobody can threaten their dominance. You will own nothing and be punished for not being happy about it.

They will restrict ur ability to run software of ur choosing via tpm (that’s why win11 is forcing all manufacturers to have a tpm chip). Thus no more encryption, no more devices without spyware, total technical domination.

It will be marriage of brave new world and 1984 but with mega corporations and billionaires instead of big brother.

Its seeming likely that then the robotic revolution till take off in combination with ai and make humans obsolete in all regards of economic production. This will lead to all sorts of problems. At this point the people serve no purpose but to be consumers but if u can’t afford anything u can’t consume anything and the global economy will collapse. The people will riot but that will be squashed via said surveillance state and u will be given a universal basic income so u can continue being a good little consumer to prop up the now false economy. And that’s how it will be for the rest of history.

At some point in this process the disenfranchised young men will get angry and give up trying to combat with rational argument thus becoming radicalised full fascists. These young angry men will soon realise they can easily rule the world as they are the arbiters of violence (hence why they get sent to war). They will get pissed off and burn it all to the ground. Mass deportations, public executions, etc etc. Then they will come the most important choice of the century. Will the leaders of this new fascist movement write new rules for a new democratic free society or keep on the existing path but with themselves as the new rulers of everything. What choice do u think they will make?

The other possibility is that the people making the AI succeed in making AGI which will almost instantly become ASI. The techbros hubris is to think they can build a god and lock it in a box. I suspect they can build a god but I doubt they can build a box strong enough to contain it. On this path the future is out of the hands of the human race and will now lie entirely within the hands of our mechanical gods. Will the AI drive us to extinction, change us to the point we nolonger recognise ourselves as human or raise us into a utopian future to manifest destiny across the universe. I cannot possibility begin to guess what decision a being a billion times more intelligent than myself will make.