29/01/2026
The push by tech corporations for us to accept digital substitutes for lovers, friends, therapists, and the systemic delegation of our thinking and creative faculties to AI is both dehumanizing us and robbing us of the crucial skills to form and nurture healthy and fulfilling relationships, both with other human beings and the natural offline world around us.
The solution for technology is not more technology.
It's humanity.
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort
