That’s a good point, even though I’m not a fan of how you chose to deliver it.

Well, yes. But that’d require fair, sensible distribution and use of available resources, and then how would we be able to support the ability of a handful of billionaires to subvert our democracies for their own gain? /s

Tell that too Google. And Microsoft. And OpenAI. And X. And…

I didn’t really need additional evidence that business is increasingly divorcing itself from actual consumer needs, but here it is anyway.

Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.

Ah yes, the printing press: Likely the most cumulatively subversive memetic infection vector ever conceived.

Define ‘mind-control’. Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation has been perfectly capable of changing people’s broad moods since 1985 and is being actively used to treat depression right now. The underlying technology is only going to get more precise, especially as more research on spintronics is done for other purposes. Sure, right now our understanding of how what goes on in a given brain translates to ‘thoughts’ is insufficient to change those thoughts in any reliable way, but there’s little doubt that when we do, the technology to make it happen will almost certainly be around.