This is way more doomer than it needs to be. Fun fact, bookstores in the UK are booming, with some stores reporting over 100% increase in profits - because people are getting bored of social media, rubbing their eyes and going out to physical bookstores as an alternative. There's also a growing movement of young kids choosing 'dumb phones' over smart phones.

We humans have a habit of thinking our particular slice of time is in some particular spotlight; social media has ruined us, AI will take over all art and destroy the human soul. It's the same fallacious thinking that had us believe the geocentric model of the solar system.

For all we know, 20 years from now all social media has shut down due to lack of demand. We're already seeing whispers of AI stocks crashing and burning as the bubble bursts.

The best world is the offline world. I've often thought there will be a kind of Time Machine dichotomy of humans in the near future; those who get fully absorbed into the online way of life and become the Morlocks, although ultimately they extinct themselves by way of not breeding with one another.

The others, the Eloi decided to go outside and get some sunlight, raise a family and play in the streams and rivers, only seeing a weird, blue glow of electricity in the distance where all the millions of drooling morlocks stare at phones until their skin falls off their bones, all the while thinking they are the centre of the solar system.

AI may or may not be here to stay, but who gives a damn when you're not reading the news, not aware of who's at war with whom, and not interested in what strangers have to say about you and your family?