Tag
big tech
Entries tagged with big tech - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.
7 concepts
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.
Technology & SocietyDead 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.
Technology & SocietyDeepfakes
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.
Technology & SocietyEnshittification
Enshittification is how online platforms decay - good to you at first, then squeezed for profit until barely usable. The pattern, and why it happens.
Technology & SocietyPlanned 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Planned obsolescence is designing products to wear out or feel outdated, so you keep buying replacements.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.
Technology & SocietySurveillance Capitalism
The business model that turns your everyday behaviour into free raw material, then sells predictions about what you'll do next.
Technology & SocietyTechnofeudalism
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.