Technology is no longer just changing the world; it's increasingly changing us to fit the world we've built.

AI offloads cognition while GLP-1s quell desire, pointing technology inward toward the human being.

The benefits are undeniable, but it's worth asking what happens to human agency when technology reshapes us.

The logic of invention has typically been straightforward. The world resists us, and we push back. So, we built homes because we couldn't change the weather and cultivated crops because we couldn't change the seasons. Mostly, innovations were a modification of the world rather than the organism. Human biology remained largely fixed while technology reshaped everything around it.

Today, something is shifting, and I believe it's worth paying attention to. A growing number of our most consequential technologies are no longer directed primarily at the external world. They are beginning to alter the internal conditions that allow us to function within environments that........

© Psychology Today