Physical Reality
Technology and corporate power do not only reshape screens and networks. They reshape the physical world people live in. Algorithmic rent pricing pushes housing out of reach. Data centers strain local water and electricity supplies. Public transit systems are defunded as ride-hailing platforms absorb the demand. Healthcare access narrows as pharmaceutical pricing algorithms optimize for extraction. Physical Reality covers the material conditions of daily life as they are restructured by the same forces driving every other domain on this site. The difference is that these effects are not abstract. They determine where people can afford to live, how they get to work, and whether they can see a doctor.
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