The above is an excerpt from Stanisław Lem's Golem XIV, an essay which this polish futurist published in 1981 and in which he speaks, through the voice of the supercomputer Golem 14, about humanity's journey to where is is now and about where it is going. Before the superintelligent computer decides to shut down communications with humans it imparts a message that our human reason might describe as cynical. Some readers, expecting a Sci-Fi novel, have been taken aback by this; Golem XIV has a very rudimentary plot, which only serves as an excuse for the author to write about the likely conclusions of an advanced AI. It is to be read like a philosophical treatise rather than a story since it contains many more fragments with allegedly third-perspective insights about humanity like those in the above video. I hope my short pitch has encouraged you to further research Lem and perhaps read the book.