--every classic dystopian novel yet writ. And the pigeons already have a name, too: Nintendo Eloi ©

(Which is not to conflate all game aficionados into that masterfully-inept Time Machine tribe + their library of rotting books;
merely the by-rote-only millions who remain mystified at the simplest concept--despite years of daily 'use'.)
Maybe these are more guilty of sloth than of vacuity, but as you say: Google shall soon have such by-the-short-hair.

All these trends are, to moi increasingly deja-vu, reinforced by noting the Still- exponential increase in consumption/capita ...
as. if. there, is . no. Tomorrow.
ie. sell short. :-/