The Right to Leave: Designing Sovereign Endings in an Age of Digital EU Independence.
There is a massive truck hurtling towards US Big Tech, and the European Union is behind the wheel. We are moving beyond simple data protection into a new era of forced digital independence.
This legislation fundamentally increases the requirement for US tech companies to face an ending. It is now up to them whether they want to design one.
Proximity Ending: When Influence Beams Down from Space
A Proximity Ending describes a boundary where access or a service changes abruptly. This can be as simple as moving from a city to a remote area and losing cell service, or as complex as crossing a national border and finding a different set of laws and cultural norms. Historically, these boundaries have been tangible and managed by nations to control everything from trade to currency. But what happens when the most powerful influences no longer respect those boundaries?
Rich Saviour Removes Death. And We All Suffer.
Imagine a world where no one dies from disease. Where people routinely live to 200. It sounds amazing—until you think about what that world looks like. Yes, death is bad. But eternal life, or even vastly extended life, is systematically irresponsible. Solving death isn’t the same as solving suffering. In fact, it may amplify it.
The fantasy of the rich saviour—the billionaire tech founder who cheats death and “saves” humanity—sits at the feverish centre of a hype-fuelled Venn diagram where AI, profitable healthcare, and the god complex converge.