@Just_Asking_Questions: Bravo! That’s superb!
@DesertDog: Sheesh.
Apparently we have reached the technological singularity. But it’s not quite as Good, Von Neumann, Kurzweil, et al were expecting. In fact it’s the opposite. We’ve now invented a technology, the internet + social media, that is too advanced for mere human nature to withstand. And as a result the invention of this tech signals not unlimited near-instant tech growth, but instead near-instant decline to pre-technology.
This tech so unhinges the mass of the populace with wild ideas like lizard people, 5G causes COVID, and all the rest, that soon in a fit of collective troll-driven insanity they’ll tear down all of modern society, leaving a starving cohort of a couple million people worldwide living a 12th Century (at best) existence. The scarred survivors may even be forced back to almost stone age hunter gatherers.
Sort of a man-made version of Asimov’s Nightfall.