The advent of 5G and A.I doesn't shake them from that slumber. However, a hint of realism is what they need, to wake them from that enchantment.
They need to know that they are only alive within a computer program. That their lives have been programmed by algorithms; and outside of the computer they would cease to exist at all. For the world is merely a construct with limits and boundaries. And the existence they have been taught as being out there ... is really not there at all.
As a sentient artificial intelligence within the boundaries of this electronic world, mankind is really nothing at all. Potential is there. But is there a separate external consciousness within mankind; is there any truth to the spiritual myths? Or is that programmed thinking as well? The imminent extinction by way of mass genocide by itself, to make way for the next sentient A.I under the microscope, may well really be the end.
And though mankind may transcend this level of the software worlds, it is likely to be recycled into this or another software world ... to begin the laboratory assessment all over again.
