In the event of religion, it was also true, if we look at Muslim/Catholic countries and the history, it was inevitable, so the ones that were outsiders and refused to partake did ruin their lives somehow (and most likely many died for it), eventually, things change (the fall of religion) but that's a different step.

You might not want to sign-up and it's brave and I hope you keep up those words and decide in 40 years to not go in the "VR" and the BCI and the AI world but if you don't, the consequences will be real and it will affect drastically your life and family (probably because no real incomes will be possible).

You might also simply be banned in a lot of places of society and Internet, Internet soon will require to be KYC and use a phone from certain company (Google/iPhone) and physical places as well you will not be able to pay and so-on, many restaurants there is only QRcode and without a phone you just can't dine in :/ (total absurdity), you might not have the choice, Covid proved it for many, many countries did impose access with QRcode in shops and if you didn't want to partake in the tech, you couldn't access that store.

I personally believe that it's kinda like currently, the ones that have a job that is already heavily assisted by AI and don't is left behind, if you are a developer today and refuse to use AI, your chances of being hired is very very low realistically, tomorrow it will be the same with new major techs, but it's true that all developers have the choice to not partake, but in practice, the damage is severe.