The next great big flood will be digital. Future civilisations won't have any accurate trace of human history and ability to discern proper fact from fiction. Our grand quest to know everything is going to lead us to completely forget everything. Pretty ironic.
something something Kojima.
Maybe patriots were actually on to something.
Well, there is one way
I have a suspicion that in time quite a few people will be going back to real things
Of course you'll still have the die hards with A.I girlfriends but you get the gist.
This will be fun but I doubt it will ever be long term. It's not in our core nature. Well, unless we get brain hacked.
It's the complete opposite. You'll have the die hards who will decide to not advance.
But they will be a minority. In the same way people without phones is a minority.
The bar for what "normal" is is constantly changing. Fire was strange until it became normal. Farming was strange until it became normal.
Books same thing, Radio, Movies, TVs, Computers, Internet, VR, now AI, in the future quantum technology and other crazy shit we discover.
We are fueled by nostalgia to recognise our childhood as the ideal state of the world.
Technology and advancement is only strange and scary to the generation not born with it.
The next generation will find AI normal and even integral to a normal life.
Our nature is to keep evolving.