“But since the next step could be to go into prescriptive mode, which means you do not even have to have elections anymore because you can already predict what, predict, and afterwards you can say, ‘Why do we need the elections?’ Because we know what the result will be. Can you imagine such a world?”

— Klaus Schwab

Don't have to: Aldous Huxley and George Orwell imagined it for me, 92 and 76 years ago respectively with their novels "Brave New World" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" 🤔