TECHNOLOGY AND POWER

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Every technological cycle — from the printing press to AI — functions as a cycle of power, concentrating upward toward governments and corporations despite promises of empowerment. The "democratization" narrative is partly true but ultimately serves as cover for growing asymmetries in compute, data, and infrastructure ownership. The real measure of who benefits will emerge later, visible in which institutions and liberties survive the cycle rather than in current marketing claims.