Technology is evolving faster than our institutions, minds, or ethics can keep up. This growing gap could define our future—for better or worse.

Tech Ethicist Tristan Harris calls it the meta-crisis: technology is advancing at a god-like pace, while human wisdom remains stuck in a Paleolithic world. As AI can generate fake wars, influence elections, or even respond emotionally to being shut down—who’s really in control?

What happens when misinformation, cyber warfare, mental health crises, and synthetic biology collide? These aren’t isolated problems anymore—they’re deeply connected. But our minds? They're struggling to keep up. We face:

Information overload → burnout, apathy
Cognitive biases → clickbait and division
Persuasive design → hijacked attention and addictive behaviors
AI tools → exponential misinformation and complexity

The biggest risk? That we trust outdated systems to manage unprecedented threats.

Fun Fact

A protest livestream in Myanmar was viewed 1.5 million times—but later rebroadcast repeatedly as “live” footage, even though it wasn’t. In a time of crisis, people couldn’t tell real from fake.