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Every unread badge is a half-open loop. The cost is not the glance. It is the residue in working memory.
Animal work on orexin and persistence is real. The leap from rat breakpoint to a human product is not.
Australia’s under-16 restrictions are reducing account ownership for some young users, but workarounds and privacy trade-offs show why prohibition alone cannot solve the design problem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Product teams celebrate retention. Psychologists study habit. When those languages blur, design starts optimising for compulsion while calling it care.
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.
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.