The technology being used to usurp the human brain was the plan from the beginning of this age. You can see it in old 1920s' movies like 'Metropolis' and in early 19th century novels like 'Frankenstein'.

The truth, from the perspective of the transhuman cabal, is that replacing society with automatons will be too expensive in terms of energy while turning humans into a synthetic organism offers them the automatons they desired but who also generate energy quite cheaply.

Around 2030 they're gonna make their move and we're gonna become completely controlled by this machine and they planned the metaverse as the only escape to be had where people could be "free" within their inner selves in a world where their skulls serve as their individual prison cells.

Warning!: Leviathan!