The tech fetishists and griftlords are pushing AI and learning algorithms, which is probably just the next step in the evolution of the Information Age. Trying to find every possible niche of human existence that a data-chewing machine can be inserted into.

Meanwhile, I've noticed that an awful lot of left wing types have been getting really into mushrooms and fungal ecology. Foraging, growing, consuming, etc.

Above, millions of miles of wiring on tiny printed circuits and vast continent-spanning cables. A world-spanning web of information, too vast and interconnected to be digested by any human mind. Every part quickly learning how to communicate with every other part. An embryonic cybernetic supra-being that we live in a very uncomfortable symbiosis with.

Below, ancient threads of mycelium twisting through organic matter, invisible to our eyes but absolutely vital to terrestrial life. Chemical signals and spores traveling back and forth in a billion-year-old scheme to fulfill a primal imperative: LIVE. This, too, we live with in an uncomfortable arrangement.

Two webs of endless activity and overwhelming purpose, utterly alien to each other and mediated through humans (however ineptly).