> Will "the rest of us" just give up on automating anything for ourselves and mindlessly become dependent on using the systems operated by "a handful of gods"?

> Will "the rest of us" just give up on automating anything for ourselves and mindlessly become dependent on using the systems operated by "a handful of gods"? I hope not. That day is already here. It'd be easier for you to envision if you could look see all the people on my Facebook feed natter on endlessly about guns, beer, and boobs without a coherent thought on any other topic. Do I think these people will be willing to be dependent on others? Absolutely! They won't even write their own memes to share, they let creative gods upstream take care of that for them.