(8) Science and technology are increasingly used to manipulate and exploit, not serve.

People now see actual degradation in every sphere of technology.

• Software upgrades are so bad that users actually fear them.


• Search engines get worse every year.


• Social media becomes more psychologically manipulative and destructive.


• Active campaigns to limit smartph

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I remember a truism from product marketing. The rule was: Nothing is more damaging than a successful launch of an inferior product. Your short-term success ensures your long-term failure.

That’s a lesson that the tech regime apparently has not learned (yet). But will learn (soon).

(7) AI is imposed everywhere as the new expert system. But when it hallucinates and generates ridiculous responses, the authorities (again) take this for granted.

Even the most successful tech companies are losing their appetite for human-driven research projects.

Even the huge corporations that fund their own research programs are now investing in AI data centers, not scientists

The only experts who still possess authority are blue-collar ones. The public still wants to hire the best plumber or car mechanic or hair stylist, and will pay more if these workers have established a reputation for expertise. But the expertise of white-collar professionals is derided at every turn.

(1) Scientific studies don’t replicate.

The whole foundation of science is based on trust that its claims can be replicated and validated. But we now see the opposite—40 percent or more of published studies fail to replicate. Even worse, the fake studies get cited more often than reliable ones.

In these volatile situations, the whole entrenched hierarchy of truth and authority gets totally reversed. The old experts and their systems are discredited, and completely new values take their place. The newcomers bring more than just a new attitude—they turn everything on its head.