I've also been getting increasingly worried about that possibility. What worries me most is a 1984-style scenario where the game is constructed such that even the people "in charge" can't escape. If someone is in charge, then there's some hope, since I think that almost everyone is at least a little decent, and even most tyrants would not want to completely crush all freedom and virtue. But with technology, I could see humanity trapping itself utterly in some perpetual machine with no freedom or progress of any kind.
In any convergent social system where a group of people are located, starting with 150 or more people, an archetype ecosystem is formed in which a divergent unit of thinking appears, exhibiting deviant behavior with probability 1. This is a kind of "randomizer generator" "this allows a person to be identified in humanity . In the minds of each of us there are these 150 archetypes. The problem is that some of them are suppressed. And this happens as long as humanity remembers itself. And there is a way to balance the mind by turning it off from reality - it's psychoactive substances. At least tetrahydrocannabinol (contained in marijuana) is able to re-install most systems in humans, correcting its ability to reflect the objective reality.
The language of technology is convergent and unambiguous, in order to be soulful humanity it is also necessary to develop a new ways of imaginative thinking and communication. Not only new money is needed, but a new language is also needed.
The future is connected with the development of communication methods and a new language - psychoactive substances will help us to create it. The most important thing is not to follow the path of consumption in the sphere of psychoactive substances. With this you should to be treated with respect and trembling. This is a responsible game with a soul.
Remember, there is always a way of existence under which a person becomes uncontrollable. And governments, in turn, can not simply take and destroy such people, especially if they are the majority. Play, do not stop, be carried away and gonna be obsessed with your ideas, then they will not be able to control you..