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AI: When the Bubble Bursts

Post author By G
Post date Aug 21, 2026
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AI is being embedded into society’s infrastructure and security while the companies, funding and support structures required to maintain it remain commercially, operationally and strategically fragile.

Tags AI bubble, AI infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, artificial intelligence security, automation, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, network security, political economy, software maintenance, speculative investment, systemic risk, technological dependency, technological resilience, technology bubble, unsupported software, vendor collapse

cybernetics

technological recursion

Technology promised to save us effort, then quietly reorganised civilisation around the effort required to sustain technology.

Philosophy

the phone died, the bill survived

Post author By G
Post date May 27, 2026
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The phone died; the contract lived on, quietly proving who really owns whom.

Tags administrative capture, cost of convenience, dark social commentary, digital bureaucracy, digital infrastructure, digital servitude, indentured technology, modern life, phone addiction, platform capitalism, smartphone dependency, surveillance capitalism, technocratic systems, technological capture, technological dependency