Interestingly I could almost argue that 2024 was the last normal year. In the UK we are already in 1984. Politicians are supposed to serve the people, the ones that elected them. Now pfft you get locked up for saying boo to a goose! And now digital ID cards being steamrolled in on top of everything. Civil unrest is seriously coming.
I think the AI genie is well and truly out of the bottle and I hope the good defeats the evil!