HumanOS · Book 1
The Attention Trap
How Apps, Algorithms, and Feeds Are Stealing Your Focus
Books & Articles
Ideas for understanding digital life.
Start with 13 books by M. Weyland about the technologies competing for your attention, changing what you trust, and reshaping the internet. Accessible articles and guides will follow.
7 books currently available
HumanOS
HumanOS looks at the ways technology shapes attention, identity, trust, and everyday choices. More books are planned.
HumanOS · Book 2
Dark Patterns
How Apps Secretly Manipulate Your Choices
HumanOS · Book 3
The Mirror Problem
How Social Media Destroyed Body Image, Self-Worth, and Identity
HumanOS · Book 4
The AI Illusion
Why Artificial Intelligence Feels Human (and Why That Matters)
HumanOS · Book 5
The Trust Problem
Why We Believe AI Even When It's Wrong
HumanOS · Book 6
The AI Therapist
The Rise of Chatbot Mental Health Care—and Its Hidden Costs
HumanOS · Book 7
Deepfake Reality
Why Your Brain Can't Trust What It Sees or Hears
4 books currently available
The Synthetic Age
The Synthetic Age explores what happens when AI-generated media changes the internet, search, and our sense of what is real. More books are planned.
The Synthetic Age · Book 1
Slop
The Quiet Flood Drowning the Internet
The Synthetic Age · Book 2
Dead Internet
The Theory That Sounded Crazy Until It Was True
The Synthetic Age · Book 3
The Answer Machine
How Search Engines Became Synthesizers and the Web Became Invisible
The Synthetic Age · Book 4
The Authenticity Tax
When Real Becomes Expensive — The Death of Default Trust
More from M. Weyland
Standalone books
Two books outside the named series explore Pokémon GO, data collection, and the race to train AI on the physical world.
Standalone book
GOTTA MAP 'EM ALL
The Hidden Data Empire Behind Pokémon GO and the AI Race for the Real World
Standalone book
Die Augen der Maschine
Wie Pokémon GO und gamifizierte Datenarbeit die sehende KI erschufen
German edition
Coming soon
Articles and practical guides
Clear, useful articles will connect the ideas in the books to everyday questions about AI, privacy, attention, and online manipulation.