When I look at the problems in my life, in my country, or in the world around me, not once has it occurred to me that they were due to a lack of advanced pattern recognition or DNA prediction.

When people were dying of hunger then being able to create more food was obviously a huge win. Likewise for creating light where people used to live in darkness.

But contemporary technologies solve non-problems and take us closer to a future no one asked for, when all we want is cheaper rent, cheaper healthcare, and less corruption.