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Long-form sense-making on how technology reshapes attention, memory, attachment, judgment, and everyday life. Written and edited by Nou Heravi.
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Essay · 12 min · 22 August 2026
When software estimates how fast a brain is ageing, a private process becomes a score. Identity and threat follow the number — not, automatically, the tissue.
Continue reading →A wearable that shifts REM without a pill is a real, early result. What it is not, yet, is a new moral of the night.
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Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.
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When fluent machines answer before we finish forming the question, judgment does not vanish overnight. It thins — rehearsal by rehearsal — until expertise becomes a feeling we can no longer check.
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Product teams celebrate retention. Psychologists study habit. When those languages blur, design starts optimising for compulsion while calling it care.
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External memory is ancient — notebooks, maps, other people. Instant search changes the bargain: we outsource not only facts, but the paths that once made facts ours.
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Always-available agents do not only answer questions. They enter the attachment system — quietly changing who we reach for first when the mind will not settle.
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Public debate treats “screen time” as one exposure. The literature is more granular — evening light, interruption, and displaced opportunity — and still serious enough for design.
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Back-to-back video days often feel heavier than rooms. A theoretical account names the load. It is not a universal law of the medium.
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