I mean historically, with essentially every other incrrease in technology and GDP this has been true, at least broadly speaking.
The quality of life of the poorest in the world has been improving over time.
It is absolutely worth considering "would things really be different this time?" But it's also a mistake to think automatically that it WILL be different this time.
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
The problem is we have to think about the actions we are taking and what those results will be. Just saying "oh, all of history before now needed human labor, but don't worry we're replacing that and nothing is going to change" is a nonsensical statement. In previous times when massive technology changes occurred we typically see very large wars break out. This was terrible and all, but war was a regional thing with regional effects. During the 20th century war became a global thing with global consequences all the way up to biosphere altering weapons of mass destruction.
The threat of MAD set up a time of relative global peace coupled with fast transportation and an explosion in the human population has set up a very fragile state of humanity. Products must keep moving and energy must keep being produces or billions and billions of people will die because they need things from the other side of the world to show up.
Will people accept ads from their “computer friend”? Might feel like the Truman Show when your friend starts giving you promo codes in casual conversation
At least the AI stuff can be disabled. Duckduckgo allows you to store settings in the URL too, if you're the type of person who disables cookies and localstorage. Edit your search URL to: https://duckduckgo.com/?k5=1&kbe=0&kbj=1&kbg=-1&q=%s
there was a rich woman that drove into a lake on her estate and drowned because she couldn't open the door in time. you'd think a high profile death of a rich person would change something at least.
>there was a rich woman that drove into a lake on her estate and drowned because she couldn't open the door in time.
Just to expand a bit on vkou's sibling reply, exiting a car that has already gone under water is absolutely non-trivial in any vehicle. Water pressure goes up very fast with depth: at just 10' (3m) deep, just minimum recommended depth for a simple outdoor low dive board pool, you're already at 4.25 psi. At 16.5' (5m) you're up to 7.1 psi.
Just using a tape measure on a more compact car (not my truck) our in the parking lot, a GTI mini, front door is ~1680 in^2 in surface area. So you already cannot open the door if it's air inside and water outside and you're in even 10' of water let alone more. My recollection from driver's ed and then emergency response is that you're supposed to get the window open (by lowering it in time if electric or unshorted or more likely by shattering it with the emergency tool you hopefully have in the car) and let water fill the interior to equalize the pressure, trying to get a last breath from the bubble at the top as long as possible. Then you've got a breath-full-of-air time to get the door open (or get out through the broken window) and get to the surface. And not lose your bearings if it's anything but shallow+bright sunlight, etc., easy to do under water when panicked if you're not well trained to instinctively do tricks like let out a small stream of bubbles to feel which way is up. It's a pretty frightening (and thankfully rare) scenario.
I think I vaguely remember the incident you're talking about, and bad doors certainly didn't help, but it's not the same impact as someone being trapped right on land where 99.9% of vehicles made in history would allow an easy exit.
