Climate change.

Literally.

2030: Cyborg w/AI will fry your brain. Literally though.

Neural implants? Only this time they're really going to fry your brain.

And before that books and comics. But LLMs are different: they pretend to be your friend but actually just encourage whatever you come up with. You can easily fry people's brains by being their sycophant, now everyone can subscribe to one.

I mean, based fully on our current dystopian reality, I feel you just made a really good point about tech growing to a point where it fully captures you from reality, and indeed frys your brain by convincing you that fantasies are real.

MAGA is a great example of people with brains so fried they think a pedophile exconman with 34 felonies who killed millions of Americans trough a poor pandemic response is somehow helping them by destroying USAID, DEI, Healthcare, and Social Security.

Their brains are gonzo, all through the constant applied exploitation of all the tech you just mentioned combined.

AI will absolutley make it worse.

2030: Critical thought will fry your brain

Well looking around at where we are today, maybe TVs did fry our brains.