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Technology does not create capacity.
It compresses it.
Every technology reduces effort by concentrating function.
Time is shortened.
Distance collapses.
Labor condenses.
Attention accelerates.
This is its purpose.
Technology is not neutral, but it is not intentional.
It does not choose outcomes.
It reduces friction.
Compression always follows.
More can be done with less movement.
More coordination with fewer signals.
More scale with tighter constraints.
This increases efficiency.
Efficiency increases density.
Density increases load.
What technology gains in reach, it loses in flexibility.
Systems become faster and more brittle.
Correction is delayed because signals arrive too quickly
to be fully integrated.
This is not malfunction.
It is compression behaving as expected.
Technology externalizes processes.
Memory leaves the body.
Calculation leaves the mind.
Coordination leaves the local system.
This frees capacity at small scale.
At large scale, it centralizes dependency.
Compression creates leverage.
Leverage creates asymmetry.
Small changes propagate widely.
Errors amplify.
Success concentrates.
This is not exploitation.
It is structure responding to scale.
Every technological advance shifts where pressure accumulates.
What was once distributed becomes localized.
What was once slow becomes immediate.
What was once optional becomes infrastructural.
Technology does not demand adoption.
But once adopted at scale, non-participation becomes costly.
This is how compression locks in.
Not through force, but through convenience.
Technology does not replace intelligence.
It replaces pathways.
When pathways narrow, motion accelerates.
When motion accelerates, heat increases.
Energy is consumed.
Resources are drawn.
This is not excess.
It is physics.
Technology is attention given form.
And form obeys limits.
The sequence does not argue against technology.
It shows what technology does when compression is prioritized
over adaptability.
From here, design becomes visible as a question of density,
not morality.