Comment by alganet

Humans need some level of paranoia, mistrust and waryness of new technology in the same way electrical circuits need circuit breakers and ships need life boats.

Pessimism saves lives and resources. It won't lead us to a better future, but it might save what does.

Furthermore, for many of us, we are already in a state of technological mindfuckery beyond Black Mirror levels. Black Mirror sounds like a fairy tale.

We need humans, kind humans that are not fools. That's very hard to make. Without that any future, technological or not, is bleak.