Postscript to the article.

Someone — wise and generous — wrote to me privately:

“I don’t think everything else will just disappear.

We’ll still need complex systems, infrastructure, tools that serve collectives.

The idea that we’ll be left only with ephemeral apps feels like an oversimplification.”

You are right.

But the point of the piece wasn’t to predict.

It was to provoke. To name a risk: that software, politics, and digital culture may all be heading down the same path.

Social media? Trash.

Politics? Trash.

Software? …

Prompts as impulse. Apps as disposable gestures. Result: digital junk.

That’s not the future I want.

It’s not a place where I’d want to retire.

Let alone raise children.

And that’s exactly why we should talk about it—now.