Technological Integration

#Prompt

In 2025 we live in an over-integrated world, with all of our needs tidily wrapped in one smooth, shiny, cold rectangle.

What Technological Integration does is cause enmeshment across our daily activities - our social feeds are next to our convenient food delivery apps, our work emails and news side by side with our personal journal and calendar. Subsequently, our capacity to agentically decide when and WHERE we want to do something is diminished because there is neither friction nor spatiotemporal movement to reaffirm and concretize our decision.

Technological Integration catalyses more surveillance, more algorithms, more brainrot, more feelings of helplessness, less agency to be curious, less energy to revolt. Convenient.

The iphone, obviously, is the epitome of Technological Integration.

Since re-compartmentalizing my technology, I have felt cognitively and spatially more aware and present because I get to decide when and where I want to enact the dailies of my life.

Some Prompts:

  1. Use sticky notes. Think of Memento-ing yourself.
  2. Use a physical planner and color code the areas of your life that are meaningful for you. For me, purple is my creative work, green is spiritual, orange is movement, pink is social, etc. Once you've laid out your plans, then you can use your digital "god" calendar.
  3. Chain your phone to the wall
  4. Buy a radio, voice recorder, and notebook. See my Algorithm Survival Kit.