Here’s a jarring mental image: picture every email you’ve ever sent. Every social media scroll. Every playlist you’ve streamed. Now, imagine each of those digital actions leaving behind a tiny puff of smoke, a microscopic puff of carbon dioxide. The “cloud,” where all this lives, isn’t some abstract, ethereal space. It’s a colossal, physical network…
Let’s play a quick game. Look around you. Count the devices connected to the internet. Your phone, obviously. Your laptop. Maybe a smart speaker blinking in the corner. A TV. A thermostat. A doorbell camera. A fridge? A lightbulb? The game gets harder—and more unsettling—the longer you play. We are no longer just using technology; we are…
Here’s a strange truth: you and I are living in different worlds. Oh, we share the same physical planet—the same cities, the same weather patterns, the same global events. But the reality we experience through our screens, the information we absorb, the opinions we’re exposed to, and even the products we’re tempted to buy are…
Let’s start with a thought experiment. Imagine handing Shakespeare a word processor. Or giving Beethoven a digital audio workstation. The tools didn’t make the genius, but they undoubtedly would have changed the process, opening doors to forms of expression previously locked away by the limitations of quill and parchment. Right now, we are living in that…
We’ve all been there. You pick up your phone to quickly check the weather, and suddenly you’re 45 minutes deep in a stranger’s vacation slideshow, a heated political debate between people you’ve never met, and a video of a cat trying to eat a watermelon. You put the phone down feeling… fuzzy. A little drained….