@OldM8 Can you incorporate space travel as well?
I like this, it fits with my prediction/observation that high tech - especially ai - will dissolve centralized civilization as we know it. We'll probably be left to choose between techno-feudal smart cities w/ digital id (because how else will we know if you're a real human?) and more rustic libertarian small towns/vilages (w/ a few small free cities here and there) powered by self-sustaining high tech (3d-printers, exotic alt-tech, etc.) and irl interpersonal relationships.
In other words, technology will force us to return to tradition, so to speak.
But i think some humans will have be more critical in how they use technology in the future, or their going to end up slowly replacing themselves with the "metaverse" and "AR".
@LodedDiaper @KryptoBlok @OldM8 People are already making conscious decisions not to buy smarthome crap. It has gotten to the point that I feel somewhat more confident that they will never become a near necessity like smartphones, I also feel confident that any micro-chipping and transhuman tech will not become mainstream. Sure there will be those who want to live the "high-tech luxury lifestyle" and buy all the latest gadgets despite all the ethical issues, but more and more people want to minimize their technology usage.
Unfortunately, smartphones are so mainstream that they are even mandatory to get a job in some places (a lot of jobs require you to install some app for 2FA, communication, clocking-in, etc). It only happened because everyone wanted a smartphone without realizing the consequences.
I'm not a luddite in any way but I think we should make conscious decisions on the technology we choose. I'm all for technologies that we control and allow us to be more self-reliant like 3D printers, but not so much about technologies that can be used for control and we can live without (smartphones, smart-home tech, transhumanist stuff, etc basically fits this definition).
I say luddite more as a neutral term, it's less a fear of all technology but more personal awareness to a technology's function. The ability to sustain yourself outside of the mainstream "ecosystem". I see the Amish as a separate "ecosystem", even if I disagree with various things.