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Keep Up or Be Left Behind: The FOMO Fable of Techtopia

By Joseph Kravis on October 21, 2023 • ( 1 )

Keep Up or Be Left Behind: The FOMO Fable of Techtopia

The FOMO Fable of Techtopia and in the land of Techtopia, where selfies reigned supreme and social media feeds flowed with an abundance of influencer-lit wisdom, a fever had swept across the realm. Not a fever of viral contagion, nor one of superfluous viral dance challenges, but a fever of FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out. This was not a fear that gnawed on the edges of normalcy but rather one that had become the very norm itself.

The object of this pulsating FOMO? Artificial Intelligence, or as the citizens of Techtopia called it, “AI”. An acronym that was almost mythical in its utterance, spoken in hushed whispers in boardrooms, cafes, even in spin classes. AI was no longer a novelty. It had shifted, transmogrified into a bandwagon. A bandwagon that every Techtopian, from the burgeoning start-up enthusiast to the entrenched tech mogul, felt compelled to leap onto with alacrity.

In coffee shops, lattes were garnished with frothy AI symbols, and croissants bore the imprints of neural networks. Gym-goers would sweat to the rhythms of AI-tuned music, their every crunch and lunge monitored by a swarm of smart sensors ready to calibrate their effort with eerie accuracy. Conversations that once revolved around Game of Thrones theories had shifted to who could best explain quantum machine learning.

Same Stuff Everywhere

As for the news? Every feed, every blog, every channel was overflowing with the same story – AI is here, AI is changing the world. Yet it was curious, that in this abundance of AI coverage, the story was always the same. An AI that could predict stock prices with supernatural precision. An AI that could compose symphonies rivaling Mozart’s. An AI that could write a bestseller or craft an Oscar-winning screenplay. The newsworthiness of AI was not in its diversity, but its repetition.

And so, the FOMO thrummed, an ever-pounding heartbeat in the core of Techtopia. People rushed to attend every AI-themed webinar, frantically downloaded each new AI-powered app, and subscribed to newsletters dedicated to the pursuit of AI enlightenment. Their battle cry was simple: Keep up or be left behind.

Yet, amidst the noise, there was a lingering question. If everyone was busy jumping on the bandwagon, who was driving it? Who was ensuring that this AI juggernaut was heading in the right direction, rather than hurtling towards a chasm of technological oblivion?

And so, the tale of Techtopia unfolds. An age of FOMO, an age of AI, an age where the news is too new, the stories too similar. Yet, despite the madness, one could not shake the feeling that this was just the beginning, the first act in a play that was yet to reveal its ultimate twist.

Welcome to Techtopia, where FOMO reigns and AI is king. Remember, you have been warned.

Keep up or be left behind.

Joseph Kravis

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