Michael Burgess

Your phone costs more, does less, and the real upgrades happen far away in data centres. Here’s how subscriptions, AI, and the cloud shift ownership, privacy, and control.

How did we end up living in a world where nearly everything you do online is tracked? This post traces the roots of modern surveillance from 19th-century mail spying to today's data-driven platforms and laws. It explores fear, profit, and power, and questions why "protecting children" is so often used to justify growing control over your private life.

Introduction to Millennials and Digital Control Today Growing up in the 1990s meant straddling two worlds: an analogue childhood and a digital coming-of-age. Now in adulthood, this generation (often called Millennials) is navigating a unique convergence of challenges. They entered an internet that promised freedom but evolved into something else entirely. They're trying to build lives amid economic conditions that seem harsher than those their parents faced. And they're experiencing mental...