Part 1 showed why the feed holds you and why “How much screen?” is the wrong question. Part 2 gives the answer: if the medium never says “Stop” on its own — how do you say it yourself? Not with willpower, which reliably fails, but by building the environment that carries the stopping — staged by age for adults, teenagers and children.
Read more →My mother is 89 and lives without a feed — and seems to have more time than I do. Is that the missing social media, or her priorities? Social media isn't “worse” than television, but built differently: no stop signal, personalised — and in its AI form it answers back. The real question isn't “How much screen?” but “Who decides the next step?”
Read more →China's bet on AI and robotics is less a geopolitical arms race than a demographic emergency: two state experiments — the one-child policy and zero-COVID — created the fastest-ageing, shrinking society in history. AI and robots are meant to replace the people who soon won't exist. Not a faraway China story, but a preview of our own ageing Europe.
Read more →UBTECH unveiled a lifelike humanoid — positioned not as an industrial machine but as an „emotional companion“. It's the economic answer to a hard reality: collapsing birth rates, ageing societies and loneliness as a documented health problem. A great deal of capital is flowing into that gap — but is the robot really a solution?
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