Dystopian futures tend to be too hyperbolic since they downplay not human intelligence but just our plain stubbornness and tribalism. Both combine to act like tenacious biofilm on teeth and aquarium filters. One kind of boring scenario is that mankind will just tribal up and refuse to finance anything but the best technology has to offer. A sure sign of this is the dying off of most of the smart wearables industry. There is only so much technology tribes will absorb and forcing or even cajoling tribes to spend more on vapid technology will just result in fostering a rapid growth of technoskeptic tribalism. A currently growing version of that is primitivism.