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June 2025

The Algorithm Wars: Why Humans Are Winning
Why communities are abandoning big platforms for private spaces where they control their own cultural evolution.
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Giles Crouch, Ph.D. c
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Technology & Our Primitive Brains
The role some of our primitive human brain aspects play in our digital lives.
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Giles Crouch, Ph.D. c
Why And How Technocracy Will Fail
The tech billionaires want to replace democracy with algorithms. They’re about to discover why that’s impossible.
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How Different Cultures View Technology
The fascinating ways different cultures are navigating the digital age.
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May 2025

Why We’re All Writing Badly on Purpose Now
The quiet rebellion against AI that’s happening in your inbox, your texts, and your brain.
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Giles Crouch, Ph.D. c
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No, The Smartphone Isn’t Broken.
Why all those AI gadgets keep failing while your phone keeps winning.
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Giles Crouch, Ph.D. c
Sorry, But Humanity Can’t be Coded
Why our messy, beautiful cultural habits resist being reduced to clean lines of computer code. Culture can’t be coded.
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Giles Crouch, Ph.D. c
Techno-Regionalism & Geopolitics
In a changing geopolitical world, we are seeing the rise of techno-regionalism. This has implications for corporate and national security.
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Giles Crouch, Ph.D. c
The Brutality of Online Job Hunting
How technology promised to connect talent with opportunity but created a dehumanizing maze instead.
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Data Colonialism & Geopolitics
In a shifting geopolitical world, data colonialism is already happening. What is it? What are the implications for citizens and nations?
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Giles Crouch, Ph.D. c
Truth Tribes: How We Reshape Reality
Examining how online groups develop their own ways of deciding what’s true, and why it threatens societies.
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