Yeah, I am familiar with these works of art and probably most people are. However, they were mostly speculative. Now we are facing some of their premises in the real world. And the guys who push the technology in a reckless way seem to notice this, but just nod their heads and carry on.
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
Works of art, works of predictive programming, life imitating art -- what's the difference, if in the end the artistic predictions come true?
People have been thinking apocalyptic thoughts like these since.. at least Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798). That's 227 years if you're keeping score. Probably longer; Malthus might only have been the first to write them down and publish them.
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.