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big tech

Entries tagged with big tech - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

7 concepts

Technology & Society

Data Colonialism 

The idea that tech firms extract data from human life the way old empires seized land, claiming our experience as territory to be owned and mined.

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Dead Internet Theory 

Dead internet theory claims bots and AI now generate most of the internet, with humans at the margins. What is true in it, and what overreaches.

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Deepfakes 

A deepfake is AI-generated video, audio or imagery showing real people doing things they never did, and why it breaks our trust in recordings.

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Enshittification 

Enshittification is how online platforms decay - good to you at first, then squeezed for profit until barely usable. The pattern, and why it happens.

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Planned Obsolescence 

Planned obsolescence is designing products to wear out or feel outdated, so you keep buying replacements. How it works, and why it shapes what you own.

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Surveillance Capitalism 

The business model that turns your everyday behaviour into free raw material, then sells predictions about what you'll do next.

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Technofeudalism 

The claim that big tech has replaced capitalism with a new feudal order, where we labour like serfs and pay rent to use digital land we never own.