Many of the largest problems now confronting technologically advanced societies are not failures of engineering, they are consequences of its success.
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technique, technology, tesseract
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Technology is the Problem
The refrain once urged us to expand: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Its inversion is now the survival mechanism: Tune out, turn off, drop in. Digital platforms have mastered the art of capture. They are not designed to serve us but to extract attention, time, and revenue from us. The architecture is parasitic—every click […]
