Meta’s new Ray-Ban AI glasses are the next step in Human Machine Integration. I’ve read about them, and am planning to try them out once they become cheaper and better. The most telling fact about them is that they have a full color display right in front of your right eye. I am a techno-enthusiast, not a Luddite, but all of us are more than aware of how technologies such as cellphones – which are now assumed to be carried by everyone by governments and businesses – are programmed to make them so addictive by getting them to produce pleasure inducing dopamine bursts in the brain when one uses them, that it’s impossible to put them down. Social media companies like Meta have invested heavily into this kind of programming. As these technologies penetrate more deeply into our minds and bodies, the only solution to their dehumanizing side effects is competing and more compelling technologies which become our servants, and not otherwise.