Me imagining a future society that is dystopian.
Society is a closed shop and everything everyone does is heavily monitored, all of this survelliance is done via the inbuilt systems in the technology, not that much is needed due to the advances in artificial intelligence enhancement, most people who have been upgraded in this way have no privacy since they can beam thoughts into other peoples heads and since the government can over ride this. Also instead of television, CNN or some other government approved MSM can just beam advertisements, news, etc, the same with social media, have a wrong thought and it will beam censorship into your head and you cannot ever turn it off.
You are forced to work, because if you don't the mandatory regular medication that only the government can provide you is actually what is keeping you alive, if they turn off the spigot your health will fail and you will eventually die from an auto-immune disease, If a person in such a state dies, it is their fault for not complying with the dictates of the government like the good virtuous members of society.
As stated the government provides you with a job, controls your banking choices, you cannot travel unless it is approved and then only rarely as a reward from the government. You work to pay your debt to the system, and any sense of financial gains are only illusary as any of the digital currency society converted to, expires once your life has ended and cannot be passed on ensuring that only the alpha levels of society the ruling classes stay in power in perpetuity. You can only gain transitory wealth, which with its expiration looming over you forces you to partake in the consumer society even if you don't necessarily want to.
There is no drug addictions, because it is no longer necessary and highly illegal, instead virtual reality, porn and gamin addictions are the norm. The government encourages this, as it is a another form of societal control and considering the drudge reality that the majority of society will live in this automated society, will be the only way in which they can experience any form of escapism.
Male and female societies are segregated into their own paralel societies, there will be no families, and no real need for gender, procreation is done via the state in incubation. Instead of having partners, most people will usually have advanced sex dolls with AI components to make their "perfect partner," or the ersatz version of it.
Everyone's lives will be dictated by carbon outprint laws and your abilities to do things in real life will be dictated by this credit system which runs in addition to the monetary system which is why the government will also push the virtual reality addictions, because it will reflect nicely on their own goals of lowering global polution at the same time acting as a drug for the masses, real life experiences will cost a lot to do, as mentioned, travelling, having more than two children as a replacement unit, etc, and so the vast majority of people who will never make above a certain level of comfortable poverty will not be able to afford the majority of carbon outprint laws, real meat, certain foods, travel, their own personal items. You will own nothing and be happy will be a constant reminder that in this system, everything is rented and there is no actual ownership of anything. You will eat the foods they give you, live where they tell you to, and you will never be able to get off the ride.
