The Cost of Convenience

Filmmaker DavidDonnelly embarks on a globespanning inquiry into how the internet's promise of frictionfree living mutated into a surveillancedriven attention economy that rewires brains, intensifies loneliness, and destabilizes democracy. Through interviews with ethicists, neuroscientists, whistleblowers and recovering tech addicts, the film asks whether society can reclaim autonomy before the next wave of artificial intelligence locks us inside profitoptimized feedback loops.