Power Dissipation
Every system bleeds energy into the void—including you, scrolling through the feed at 3 AM.
Every system bleeds energy into the void—including you, scrolling through the feed at 3 AM.
Resistance isn't futile—it's the only thing standing between you and total conductance.
In circuits and in consciousness, resistance determines how much energy becomes heat, how much signal becomes noise, and how much of you dissipates into the network.
You are not the electricity—you are the wire, and the current flowing through you was never yours to control.
The difference in potential that drives electrons through circuits is the same force that pulls your attention across digital networks—and someone else controls the terminals.
In physics and surveillance capitalism alike, potential energy measures not what is, but what could be—the stored capacity for work, extraction, and conversion.
You exist in fields of influence you cannot see, but their effects shape every moment of your digital life.
The force between charged particles weakens with distance—but in the attention economy, your data creates fields that never decay.
In physics, opposite charges attract—in surveillance capitalism, you are the charge being pulled toward platforms that feed on your polarity.
You don't notice the exact moment water becomes ice—and you won't notice the moment your attention becomes a commodity.