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Acceleration has been the keyword in our world since the Industrial Revolution. Machines use time differently to humans. Computers are not time-bound. As biological beings, humans are subject to time, most importantly our allotted span: we die.

Wages have only been used as a metric of progress since industrialisation and the creation of a wage-earning working class. And, of course, wages say nothing about the well-being, independence, happiness, and mental health that come from productive, pleasurable activities that are economically viable, but resistant to straight-line capitalist metri

We don’t all have to make groundbreaking discoveries. Women don’t have to be ‘the best’. Women need to be everywhere, in every role, every workforce – and not at entry level, not at part-time and piecework level, but right in the centre of it all – and in management, taken seriously alongside their male colleagues, not worrying about what will I we

Men do seem to think that a woman can be manmade, perhaps because a woman has been a commodity, a chattel, a possession, an object, for most of history.

In reality, Big Tech is about global reach, global control, and a business model that seeks global power without local responsibility.

Our social systems, our hierarchical obsessions, the increasing concentration of wealth and power among a very few – these things are driving our uncomfortable relationship with AI.

We sell our time, we sell our labour, sometimes we have to sell our bodies, sometimes we have to get money in ways we would rather not. But we accept that there is a distinction between making money, however you do it – and being money.

Paying less (then as now) was gender-based, with the added advantage of de-skilling a job.

The you that is you is a work in progress until biological death – and perhaps after that.