Over decades, people began to embrace new media (like film and television), sports, and an ever-quickening pace of life. Books were abridged or degraded to accommodate shorter attention spans.

— Wikipedia article on Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

— a direct quote from Frank Herbert in Dune (1965)

Nowadays we have TikTok and AI. We can't even say we weren't warned, dawg, they knew 😭😭😭