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Consider the [much-criticised ad for Apple’s latest tablet](https://www.ft.com/content/1f7314d7-577c-4263-a69f-b11757d85b4d). In “Crush!” a colossal hydraulic press steadily obliterates a mountain of musical instruments, books, cameras and art supplies, to the strains of Sonny and Cher’s 1971 hit “All I Ever Need Is You”, leaving behind only an ultra-thin iPad. This one device, we are meant to understand, has within it all the capabilities of the demolished objects. We won’t be needing them any more.
The AI We Could Have Had
Evgeny Morozov
Depression is endemic. It is the condition most dealt with by the National Health Service, and is afflicting people at increasingly younger ages.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
What I think I’ve come to understand, more deeply than ever before, is that the enemy is not technology itself, but rather inequality and centralization of power and knowledge, and that the answer to these threats are education, diversity and justice.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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