Drowned in feeds and notifications, we post and scroll compulsively without building real knowledge. This essay explores informational noise, algorithmic inequality and self-exploitation in the network society.
Australia’s social media ban for under-16s hits the wrong target. South Korean precedent proves it: bans don’t work, youth bypass restrictions. The real problem isn’t access, but platforms’ proprietary architecture: addictive algorithms, targeted advertising, manipulative design. Regulate the system.
Beyond technological determinism and human control: the relationship between technological and biological architecture generates an emergent third system. From McLuhan to Minsky, from Kelly to Zuboff, an analysis of human transformation in the AI era. We’ve become mindless agents of a profit-driven hive.
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