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cybernetics

War Machine: The Technology That Conflict Builds

Conflict builds technology, technology reorganises conflict, and somewhere inside the loop every new problem becomes someone’s next investment opportunity.

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cybernetics

AI: When the Bubble Bursts

AI is building the dependencies that make its own expansion increasingly necessary.

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cybernetics

technological recursion

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

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Philosophy

the phone died, the bill survived

The phone died; the contract lived on, quietly proving who really owns whom.