I was thinking of that story too, but couldn’t remember the name. It’s been a while, but I seem to remember that what happened to the protagonist was an unprecedented failure-mode rather than the default outcome (with knowledge suppressed before society as a whole became aware of it).
That is the issue with most sci-fi, it’s much harder to write an interesting story where things pan out as planned and the world is genuinely utopian. Cautionary tales are far more popular.
The earring does seem to want what’s best for the user, from the perspective of the user. If it was malicious, why even warn them in the first place?
I was thinking of that story too, but couldn’t remember the name. It’s been a while, but I seem to remember that what happened to the protagonist was an unprecedented failure-mode rather than the default outcome (with knowledge suppressed before society as a whole became aware of it).
That is the issue with most sci-fi, it’s much harder to write an interesting story where things pan out as planned and the world is genuinely utopian. Cautionary tales are far more popular.
The earring does seem to want what’s best for the user, from the perspective of the user. If it was malicious, why even warn them in the first place?