My technological knowledge is superficial compared to experts in specific fields of application such as AI. But thinking about the near future from a sense of the current complexity of human endeavors and impacts on climate, government, economics, and so forth (now and through the coming decades) it seems inevitable that human society is trapped. I have a strong feeling that we are facing collapse in many ways. The consequences of population burden, heating of the planet with hydrocarbon use, unprecedented climatic shifts that are occurring, and geopolitical realignments will put us in precarious times beginning now and going forward at an accelerating rate of chaotic change. We are living in a period of time when no country, economic model, or authority can maintain any illusion of having control of the future.