> The backlash against this world is democracy manifesting itself; a tacit rejection of the ideological assumptions underpinning the personal tech revolution.

> The backlash against this world is democracy manifesting itself; a tacit rejection of the ideological assumptions underpinning the personal tech revolution. When was there a time humans didn't react negatively toward technology advancements? This article fails to deliver on the assertion in its title: "the world ... will be awful". Someone thinking the future will be awful doesn't not mean the future being awful when we arrive at it.