Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives

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Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives Dreaming of Thoreau on Instagram Rohit Krishnan Jun 09, 2025 117 21 40 Share I. A lot of people seem to hate Silicon Valley with a passion. Recently I commented on a post that Tyler , a writer at Atlantic, made, suggesting that tech isn’t monomaniacally bad, and got hit with a barrage of comments about how I’m wrong. Technologists caused addiction to social media and smartphones intentionally, they said. They forced advertising on us, to the point of having to use ad blockers to even get on the internet 1 . They never asked us for permis

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