Agree. And our children's future is the true horror of it all, because what rises from the ashes is not going to resemble anything like the world as it was.

The change is going to be so far-reaching and profound, I suspect eventually it will have its own demarcation line in history, similar to BC/AD.

Total and irrevocable subjugation of all humanity, under an iron-fisted stranglehold of technological slavery (with no chance this time of any revolution or Civil War to abolish it).

An all-seeing AI and "One Ping to Rule Them All".