Technology and conflict do not simply cause one another; they emerge from the same relational mechanism, where volatility, advantage, fear, and opportunity make their mutual reproduction increasingly probable.
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technology: we have a problem…
Technology does not merely change the world. It changes the conditions under which future technologies arrive and thrive.
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mediated intimacy
Loneliness becomes a market when technology makes itself the bridge between people.
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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change
We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.
The technology sector is learning to metabolise its own disorder: turning instability into dependency, and dependency back into revenue.
Change the timing and you change the structure. Communication is not merely the transfer of information through a network but the propagation of signals through media of different densities, delays, and constraints. Small temporal modulations accumulate. Phase shifts become interference patterns. Interference becomes organisation.
At precisely the moment technology allowed us to express our own thoughts with unprecedented speed, ease, and fluency, people began switching off from the flood of language-model-mediated self-expression that followed.
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technique, technology, tesseract
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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frustration with institutional orthodoxy
A system can become so effective at measuring, managing, and reproducing its own internal assumptions that it gradually loses the ability to perceive the external reality those assumptions were originally created to address.
Technology at scale preferentially industrialises the parts of human nature that are easiest to measure, repeat, monetise, automate, and weaponise. Those parts are rarely our best ones.
The history of technology amplifies existing social, cultural and psychological dynamics around competitive thought and behaviour.
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all swallowed whole
Technology cannot solve itself, because the introspective incompleteness that limits it is a function of the same combinatorial unboundedness that makes it at all possible; spoiler: we humans are similarly and simultaneously bound by identical logic.
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