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The year is 2029. Trump is president and Ai has been implemented in life and government. Our phones and computers are not computers anymore, they are just screens that stream from the datacenters. All that is digital is owned by the government which is owned by the corporations. In fact, it's now illegal to own a computer.
But also you only get to have 4 hours of screen time a day because they can‘t afford or even build enough data centers in a timely manner. You suddenly get to meet up with friends and family much more often and doom scrolling is becoming a rare sight at the dinner table.
I mean I‘m definitely not saying this is a good possible future but nobody can actually build and supply that many data centers within the next 3 years.
Then those nasty people cant install their own software either. What do they think this is. A free world???