Its early days. Agree with your point that the "vision" of the future laid out by tech people doesn't have much of a chance of becoming (accepted) reality, because its necessarily a reflection of their own inner world, largely devoid of importance and interactions with other people. Prime example, see metaverse. Most of us don't want to replace the real world with a (crappy) digital one; the sooner we build things that respects that fundamental value, the sooner we can build things that actually improves our lives.
did you not have the computer room open to flash games and the like over lunch time? competitive 4 player bmtron was a blast way back whenhttps://www.games1729.com/archive/
Karpathy and his peer group are some of the most elitist and anti social people who have ever lived. I wonder how history will remember them.