caroline

“Here, too, she observed an almost libidinal desire to relinquish autonomy, except this time in the context of various silly, infantilizing “innovations,” each product solving some non-problem—“No more browsing for hours while your dinner gets cold: let us decide what movie you’d enjoy tonight, based on your hormonal and metabolic indicators!”—like a prosthesis fitted over a perfectly healthy limb so it could shrivel from disuse inside the plastic casing. When she’d done her masters, she’d believed that artificial intelligence was about computer minds ascending into person-hood, but this was more about human minds decaying out of it.”
― Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker