The 2000 Grandaddy album that predicted our AI future

The 2000 Grandaddy album that predicted our AI future

Social media didn’t exist. Smartphones and doom-scrolling didn’t exist. The internet was mostly a blissful carnival of GeoCities fan sites and hamster dances. So why was there such a sense of impending doom lurking over the technology-minded records of the late 1990s and early 2000s? If anything, the music of the year 2000 itself should have been joyous and celebratory, as mankind had just managed to survive the existential threat of the dreaded…