I really wish we could be more honest with ourselves about the tradeoffs inherent in the level of technological sophistication we achieved and continue to push

I really wish we could be more honest with ourselves about the tradeoffs inherent in the level of technological sophistication we achieved and continue to push the boundaries of. There just isn't a way to have privacy and human dignity in a world where everyone and their brother is walking around with an internet-connected recording device in their pocket or on their wrist. I know, I know, I can hear it now: "We just need to regulate it properly; It's not tech that's good or bad, but how we use it; tech is just a tool!". While that's a nice intellectual platitude, it's just not workable. The level of regulation that will ultimately be required to manage things like recording people in public, AI, mass data collection, etc. is going to require a level of government intrusion at a scale never before seen. And then there's still the matter of the government actually being able to regulate the tech properly. I just don't think our current level of tech, particularly with the emergence of AI, is a matter of having our cake and eating it too. We can have our fancy toys , but the social cost is going to be very very high.