Book
The Digital Collar
A book about the quiet bargain behind modern technology: less friction, more comfort, and a growing dependence on systems we no longer fully understand or control.
The Digital Collar is about technology, comfort, and the kind of control that does not need force.
Modern systems rarely ask people to obey. They make life easier first. They reduce effort, remove friction, predict choices, recommend behaviour, and slowly turn dependence into habit.
That is what makes the collar digital. It is not worn on the body. It is built into work, entertainment, money, communication, status, and attention. People do not always resist it, because much of it feels useful.
This book is not against technology. I use technology, study it, and build with it. But I do not trust the idea that every increase in convenience is an increase in freedom.
The more a system knows what we want, the easier it becomes for us to stop asking why we want it.
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