This sounds to me kind of like saying Jesus Christ will literally come back to Earth as a ghost for the rapture in 2012. I wouldn’t put my money on people not just using the government to make something else happen.
People already wanted to distrust technology; there are plenty of personally fulfilling narrative roles people would gain from simply attempting the ordinary governmental intervention efforts humans have always tended to. I’m not saying it will be competently executed but it would probably be at least as good as internet- and automation-assisted feudalism.
This sounds to me kind of like saying Jesus Christ will literally come back to Earth as a ghost for the rapture in 2012. I wouldn’t put my money on people not just using the government to make something else happen.
People already wanted to distrust technology; there are plenty of personally fulfilling narrative roles people would gain from simply attempting the ordinary governmental intervention efforts humans have always tended to. I’m not saying it will be competently executed but it would probably be at least as good as internet- and automation-assisted feudalism.