I'm not sure we are heading for a Star Trek world as the wealth is being hoarded by billionaires who will bugger off to Mars if the world turns to shit.
Something is definitely being built by the billionaires and they keep dropping hints (leaks) about it. Elon Musk is probably supplying a lot of the technical aspect of it. Mars, Moon, Antartica, wherever it is haha.
Ai Music has gotten really good as well. Many content creators no longer license music from musicians to use commercially, they just use ai to generate something "similar" to the track they would have otherwise paid for. It's pretty sad.
Antarctica is paradise compared to Mars. We can't let them wreck the planet for profit and then bugger off.
Artists are being sidelined in the stock image and music field. Machines were not meant to replace our creative skills. I'm turned off by obvious AI imagery, but it's everywhere.