The tribalism is already underway. People are being forced to choose a side. During the French revolution, it was the moderates in the middle that got disproportionally executed. Social disorder and chaos invite a strongman to restore order through mass violence - Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini to name a few. The losers were pacified and eliminated.

Bitcoin is economic Plan B, but hedging personal risk needs to be evaluated. There is a reason that more than 22 billionaires (including Zuck) have places on Kauai. New Zealand is also popular. Larry E owns an island with 4,000 residents. Not saying .... but, it's nice to have a big ocean as a buffer.

I like that good AI is here and getting even better. My take is that competing AI systems will "fact check" each other through almost real time filtering systems to screen and flag what you see/read. Let multiple AI systems validate content for those that want freedom from AI driven propaganda control systems. Humans won't be able to do it on their own.

AI systems anchored in Bitcoin security would be a great way to protect these systems from becoming exploited and corrupted by human power structures. We already see this dichotomy in the outputs from Google's Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT. Just having one powerful and neutral Bitcoin anchored AI system may keep the government and private sector AI's more honest.

The near term looks precarious because of how easy it is for things to seriously go off the rails. I am a tech optimist for 10 years out. There will be huge progress in multiple fields which will combine with modernized institutions to create a more durable social structure. It's just the next few years that are going to be dicey imho.