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The perspective that technology creates expanding sandboxes for human action—bounded domains with rules (physics, economics, ethics) within which we can build, create, and transform. Each new technology extends the sandbox, adding new tools, new materials, new possibilities. But every sandbox has edges: unintended consequences, resource limits, ethical boundaries we ignore at our peril. Technological Sandboxism embraces innovation while remembering that playing in the sandbox means accepting its constraints—and that the biggest castles sometimes collapse under their own weight.
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