By Flávia MonteiroIssue 026 min read
The future is not
a place.
Raising a child in the era of surveillance capitalism and "cloud capital". A structural question about predictability, behavioral automation, and resistance.
Anyone who cares for a child knows the future is something else. It is a small body that will cross decades in which I will not be entirely present to see.
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The future is not a place; it is someone I love.
When an algorithm decides the next video a seven-year-old child will watch, what is being negotiated is their future tense: the ability to want something the system has not predicted.