Technology is often celebrated as progress by default. Faster systems, smarter tools, more efficient processes. But history shows that the most dangerous technological failures do not come from tools that do not work — they come from tools that work perfectly while solving the wrong problems.
We rarely ask whether technology is answering the right question. We ask whether it is impressive.
Across industries and societies, technological innovation has increasingly focused on optimisation rather than resolution. We have built systems that r
