# Fear Can Drive People Out of Ordinary Technological Life by Bryant McGill > “Some human beings are already withdrawing from phones, networks, medicine, AI, institutions, banking, identity systems, and ordinary technological life because somebody convinced them that every interface is surveillance, every algorithm is possession, every vaccine is poison, every institution is a trap, and every machine is an enemy.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Author-supplied exact original:** “Some human beings are already withdrawing from phones, networks, medicine, AI, institutions, banking, identity systems, and ordinary technological life because somebody convinced them that every interface is surveillance, every algorithm is possession, every vaccine is poison, every institution is a trap, and every machine is an enemy.” — supplied directly by Bryant McGill for [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]]. - **Source article:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] — Bryant McGill identifies this article as the originating publication for this Reminder. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vaccines, Science, and the Latest Disruption of Biological Clarity from the White House|Vaccines, Science, and Biological Clarity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] - [[wiki/Digital Divide|Digital Divide]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Some human beings are already withdrawing from phones, networks, medicine, AI, institutions, banking, identity systems, and ordinary technological life because somebody convinced them that every interface is surveillance, every algorithm is possession, every vaccine is poison, every institution is a trap, and every machine is an enemy.” — Bryant McGill, The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-fear-can-drive-people-out-of-ordinary-technological-life ```