One of the reasons I'm so skeptical of AI getting shoved into everything is that it is not forward-looking, it's just reinforcing all of the bad systems and processes we already have. It's not just that I miss a past, pre-AI world (though I do), it's that when I think of a genuinely better future, it mostly involves ripping out the systems that AI is trying its hardest to perpetuate.
AI is not the future, it's the present, repeated endlessly.
I'm not sure how aware younger folks are of just how wild it is that for *decades* the only standard consumer DC power jack we had was the *automotive cigarette lighter receptacle*