Ana Maria Tofan

An illustration of a person standing in a shower under a water stream, covered with soap bubbles, looking at a phone screen held in front of their face with a tired look on their face.
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Passive screen time is dulling your life

Peak Web June 4, 2025

By: Ana Maria Tofan, SFU Student How often have you caught yourself scrolling while walking 10 steps to the kitchen for a snack? If you’re part of the generation of young adults who did not grow up glued to a screen (like me), you might like to think you’re holier than thou for having “played outside” as a kid. When tech companies spend billions of dollars to engineer the most addictive algorithms to keep our attention, is it really a surprise when it works? The reality is that these companies will stop at nothing to lock eyes into the endless…

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this is an aerial-view photo of the Curtea de Argeş cathedral in Romania. The castle is square shaped and has five spired towers.
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The capitalist prioritization of profit has murdered artisanship

Peak Web March 18, 2025

By: Ana Maria Tofan, SFU Student The capitalist goal is simple: maximize profit by spending less on materials and labour. This has had a drastic impact on the quality of material goods. The pursuit of this goal has replaced the…

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