The final week of April 2025 brought into focus the messy contradictions of our technological moment—a period where innovation and consequences collide at unprecedented speed. 

We witnessed AI systems that simultaneously harm our climate while potentially helping to save it, observed tech companies announcing layoffs amid record-breaking funding rounds, and watched as young Americans increasingly place their economic hopes in digital tokens named after internet memes. 

Behind these headlines lies a fundamental renegotiation of the relationship between technology and society, where the old rules and assumptions increasingly fail to apply.

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