I am not so sure that is the worst case scenario by far.
They could for instance fulfill our every desire the moment that we have it. No wants, no needs, no desires, no hopes, no dreams. No reason to ever get out of bed each day? And yet imagine that space travel still remains out of technological reach. Turning on our pleasure sensors is easy, but inventing faster than light travel isn’t worth the expansion of resources that it would take.
I guess you already said it: they could keep us in a zoo, having incentivized the discarding of our very souls, with nothing left to look forward to, ever again, while the fascist overlords cite how any kind of exploration is “too dangerous”.
I am not so sure that is the worst case scenario by far.
They could for instance fulfill our every desire the moment that we have it. No wants, no needs, no desires, no hopes, no dreams. No reason to ever get out of bed each day? And yet imagine that space travel still remains out of technological reach. Turning on our pleasure sensors is easy, but inventing faster than light travel isn’t worth the expansion of resources that it would take.
I guess you already said it: they could keep us in a zoo, having incentivized the discarding of our very souls, with nothing left to look forward to, ever again, while the fascist overlords cite how any kind of exploration is “too dangerous”.
Agen Smith they tried giving people their every desire and people hated it. Entire crops were lost.