Dana McKay

Social apps like Instagram, TikTok and Facebook are designed to be addictive. What would they look like if we removed the worst features?

We've all been there: lying on the sofa at an awkward angle, phone in hand, scrolling through reels. It's so easy to lose track of time, and so hard to disconnect

For as long as you have been a member of your local gym, you have used a small plastic tag to access it. But now the tag no longer works.

ABSTRACT Self-monitoring technology (SMT) – smartphone apps and wearable devices used to monitor bodily functions and activities – are becoming increasingly ubiquitous.

AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.

AI is reducing website traffic: AI search tools increasingly answer questions directly instead of sending users to original websites. Publishers

Recently, that social contract has begun to collapse. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are crawling sites not to link to them, but to train models and generate answers (which may or may not be accurate).

The traditional web's social contract, where search engines linked to free content, is collapsing due to AI's content scraping for training.

Explore how AI bots are reshaping web traffic, causing revenue loss for website owners, and leading to lower quality search results. Understand the implications of AI crawlers on reliable information and the potential consequences for users.

As AI eats traffic, the best websites are locking it out, making reliable information harder to find.