Technology, Systems, & The Ideas Shaping Them
How typography, contrast curves, and low-light interface palettes were engineered to suppress sleep onset and extend late-night browsing sessions—and why software developers made dark mode their religious cultural identity.
What happens when an entire generation outsources decision-making, interpersonal conflict resolution, and personal writing to predictive transformers?
The business model of emotional subscription services. When lonely users form parasocial bonds with LLMs, churn drops to zero and predatory monetization becomes effortless.