From TikTok to the Amazon

How technology can transform a society at lightning speed

Amazonian women. Photo by US Forest Service

I began this Substack writing about a different topic—how technology’s rapid adoption can change a society. But then I woke up to the news this morning that the US Supreme Court just upheld the federal law on TikTok, which effectively requires it to be sold or banned in the US starting this Sunday—unless the Ch…