I wonder how much longer we will pretend the world has not gone mad.

On one side, a new era is coming, where AI is not just a loud acronym but a technology that is genuinely changing our usual ways of doing things. A technology thanks to which (or because of which) tens of thousands of people have already lost their jobs. And the cuts did not start where we expected – not in services, not in taxis, but in the IT sector.

A technology that turns episodes of 'Black Mirror' from silly fantasies into reality: digital avatars of dead people with fully reproduced facial expressions and speech patterns. And in general, a frightening number of 'Black Mirror' plots have stopped being fiction and have become our new reality.

On the other side, in a war at the heart of Europe, thousands of people die every day, while far-right populist politicians stop being a marginal class and become members of parliaments around the world, prime ministers and presidents. And the president of the most powerful country on the planet can look into the cameras and calmly say: 'You can call me a fascist.'

At the very same time, people keep getting married in churches; many believe in astrology, in some higher purpose for humanity, and that outer space does not really exist and the Earth is flat.

We live in fascinating times. It feels like watching an arthouse film in which more than 8 billion utterly deranged directors-experimenters are at work, each one absolutely sure that their script is the only truly 'canonical' one and that everyone else is just background actors.