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Hello, Do You Like the Future You See?
NONFICIT — #4
Behind my eyelids, I can envision a future that doesn’t need me.
Oh, before you get sympathetic with me, just know that this applies to most of us. The world doesn’t need us to function. Existential dreariness, yes, but the world has spun and spun for eons without the idea of most of us. The universe will keep on quaking. The wars will keep on coming. The chaos of the earth — and the planets looping it since the galaxy’s burst — will continue on without any of us.
But more and more I grow uneasy, regardless of my ennui over my own state of being. I look at job descriptions online and remember the beginnings of the post-pandemic world where I sent out 200 applications and received only two interviews in return. (Yes, it was just as demoralizing at it sounds.) I look at so many meaningless job titles for companies that may sink or may swim, and I think of how pointless it all is. Who cares if I can sell a vat of goo to unsuspecting people? Who caries if I can lob plushies at people just for the hell of it? Who cares, who cares, who cares?
I got an IT degree because I thought tech was the future. And I was right: technology is definitely not going away. But my foresight was wrong. Yes, tech’s not going away, but the people can. Artificial intelligence is eating away at the core of…
