Anyone Else?

Before our very eyes we see history happening!

Has anyone else had a recurring suspicion that we are already
living in an AI world? And that all we see and hear is touched by AI?

Do we realize how Tech has sculpted us into rabid users? Unsettling how
fast this happens!!! We cheerfully lap up the artificial brew.

Are we all finding out that “fake news” is delivered in the most
truth-like ways, with special effects?

Even the “live” TV we watch has special effects.

Even the humans we see in our daily life are more and more
doctored up artificially to fit into today’s expectations.

Eyelashes, anyone?

To be UNFAKE, I realize I am looking like a ragamuffin out in today’s world.

People kind of accept me, even though I don’t wear jewelry (it bothers me) and even though I skip the popular words that I used to get my mouth washed out with soap for.

But my ears wilt a little when people I know and love and trust speak like the boys in the locker room. Yes, it affects me. And if I say so, people think their thoughts about old-fashioned fuddy duddy old people. “Oh, I see,” says my very well-educated step niece. “You have not yet been family-ized.”

She is careful around me. But it stunts her proclamations about the state of the world. Her freedom of speech. She and I both have to be flexible because we value what we are saying, even if it doesn’t suit everyone in the room.

What if my shoes are “so yesterday.” My shoes are my shoes now in my 87th year, and my feet get to choose.

You know how an ice cube melts? At first you don’t notice the shininess as the process starts. A little while later, there is a puddle that used to be a form.

We are ice cubes. AI is the invisible temperature adjustment.

Anyone else feel we are being sculpted so gradually that we don’t notice it?

Comment about AI if you like.

Just a rhetoric question. © SGHolland, June24, 2024.