Som Juan

Utility alone won’t assuage us. We want empowerment. We want to be better people. We want technology to enhance our capabilities and increase our sense of agency without dictating the rhythm of our lives.

Watch ads take over the Internet. Watch ads flood your inbox. Watch ads for cosmetics and luxury cars punctuate world-class journalism about the global refugee crisis. Watch Pulitzer Prize-winning publications play the clickbait game. Watch your heroes sell out and submit to ad revenue. Watch your heroes pay to play. Feel their writing turn into content.

Many of us work in dreary, meaningless jobs to have the money to fulfil material desires only for new desires to emerge. We are stuck in a tailspin of desire that could make us miserable rather than happy.