AIAndHumanSpirit

Reasonably good summary here

Obvious pushback is "what's new?" This Faustian bargain with technology and the dilemma of deskilling has been going on since the first flint axes.

And dependency of technology is just a subset of dependency on others, which is the definition of "civilization". (MiddleClassBlasphemy)

Framing of "this is the elites' plan for us " smells oddly like the reactionary right (I have no idea where these people are positioned politically)

But of course, it's also true. One strand of RightWingPopulism today is precisely driven by the perception that technology is reshaping the world so fast everyone else can't keep up.

In NetoCracy thinking we'd say the netocrats organise everyone else's consumption.