Over the last decade, data collection, sale, and distribution practices have become more commonplace, lucrative, and precise. User information is increasingly commodified with little to no user consent, control, or privacy. Despite the purported benefits, more than 80% of the public nationwide says that the risks of data collection practices outweigh the benefits
Technology
Being in the Increasingly Artificial World
It’s everywhere. Even my family has begun to depend on it: “Mom, have you seen the doctor to get your wrist checked out?” I ask. “No, I asked Chat instead,” she says. You see it appear in texts; the long, meandering, just-so perfectly casual yet precisely to the point prose that has never passed the...
August 12, 2026