Séamas O'Reilly: The tech that runs our lives is waging war against us

"Ensh*ttification is everywhere. It’s in the degradation of social media platforms and the ubiquity of crap customer service bots, it’s in the robotic voices incapable of answering your queries on the phone to your own bank."

Seamas O'Reilly. Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan

As a dad of two young kids, ‘spring cleaning’ has lost some of the meaning it once did. 

Certainly not since those halcyon days of my grubby 20s, when tidying up was something I’d have reliably informed you I did once a year, “whether I need to or not”.