Category: TechCrunch

  • Debt’s Dystopia

    My name is Vishal Kapoor, and I am the head of product at Affirm. I should be proud of the revolutionary ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ system we’ve developed. It was meant to be a solution, a way to help people get what they need without immediate payment. But as I stare at the chaos unfolding…

  • Electrified Rebellion

    My heart pounded in my chest as I watched the news unfold on the holographic screen. “Tesla wins against Swedish union workers,” the headline blared, the words flashing in neon green against the dark backdrop of my tiny apartment. I felt a cold knot of fear in my stomach. If Tesla got their license plates,…

  • Algorithm of Suppression

    I wake up in a cold sweat, my heart pounding like a drum against my ribcage. The dream was the same as always – a world dominated by a single entity, an entity that controlled what we saw, what we heard, what we believed. It was Google, but not as we know it today. It…

  • The Unplugged Rebellion

    I sit in the dimly lit corner of my room, the cold metal of my last working device in my hands. The screen flickers, a ghostly reminder of a world that was once vibrant and connected. I can almost hear the echoes of the tech industry’s downfall, the names of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta,…

  • The Meta Deception

    I was just a kid when they first came for us. Meta, they called themselves, promising a world of connections, of friendships beyond borders. They lured us in with games, with the promise of a community. But we were just kids, we didn’t know any better. We didn’t know we were pawns in their game…

  • The Redditors’ Revolt

    I woke up to the sound of the notification ping on my phone. Rubbing my sleep-filled eyes, I squinted at the bright screen. The Reddit logo glowed ominously, a red envelope indicating a new message. “Reddit is going public.” The words spun in my mind, a whirlwind of implications and changes. I didn’t know it…

  • Shadows of Shein

    Every time the sun rises, it brings a new day, a new hope. But not for me. Not since the day Shein became a publicly-traded entity in the US. I remember the day when the news broke, it was just another headline, another company going public. But little did I know, it was the beginning…

  • The Halved Hope

    I stared at the screen, my heart pounding in my chest. The numbers were there, stark and unchangeable. $42 billion. Half of what we had last year. Half of what we needed to keep our dreams alive. The world outside my window seemed to echo the bleakness of the news. The once vibrant tech sector,…

  • Astrolab’s Anomaly

    I was never one for holidays, not since the world turned upside down. Thanksgiving, once a day of gratitude and family, had become just another day in the derelict landscape of our existence. But this year, something was different. As I sat huddled in the cold, listening to the crackling radio signal, I heard it…

  • Roomba Uprising

    It started like any other day, with the hum of my Roomba at my feet. As the sun streamed through the window, I sipped my coffee, oblivious to the fact that my world was about to be turned upside down. The news flashed across the screen, ‘Amazon’s iRobot purchase… formal competition concerns in EU.’ Little…