Is my conspiracy brain going on an adventure? Or... I've just noticed something. My little brother is 11. Basically every second sentence is a meme. When we play fight he pretends he's playing a video game. Like when I'm holding him down he says "quick time event, x, x, x, x, x, x," as if he's in Spiderman in a Boss fight. Technology as penatrwted so much of his speech and so much of how he thinks. And of course so much of his social interaction. There was a period there that he wouldn't miss a day of flossing and dabbing. "It's wensday ma dudes", "I can't believe you've done this" ect.  We all might say this is just normal typical behaviour for kids these days. We're are obviously still yet to see the impact this is going to have. I only bring this up because of a warning that I watched a little while back. If any of you have gone deep down the rabbit hole you would know of the apparent threat of artificial intelligence. Anyway even if you haven't, what the big warning to watch out for is the symbiosis of humans and machines. The apparent merging of human consousness with technology. You see this with that microchipping business.  This only just clicked. We have a generation of children where technology has had a profound role in doing the parenting. Am I witnessing the "symbiosis of human and machine" agenda of basically Lucifer? Or is my conspiracy brain going for an adventure again? Whatever the case may be I think we need to invest way more into bring up children in the best way we possibly can. They are literally the generations that will rule this planet. So much of who a person is is shaped by the time there 16 (complete guess, it sounds about right). Edit: I've re-thought this post. And yeah the merging of technology and humans is obviously a massive threat, but the reality is technology ain't gonna go away. We have just got to use it as best we can. One way technology has brought a lot of good is how it's brought humanity so much closer together. In a way it's helping unite humanity, which I can definitely get behind. Before using this forum technology we call voat I had no interest whatsoever in visiting American. Now after months of interacting with Americans, I kinda feel imersed in ametica's culture. Now I'm eager to visit, it's incredibly fascinating to me. Gotta leave it on a positive note ya know this topic is a bit neg.