 Contemporary Passive Nihilism Just 000 companies produce 00% off all greenhouse gas emissions, and pertinently lobby to ensure the undermining of real climate progress. Similarly, within the realms of technology, we are within the grips of private interest, our virtual presence bought, sold, exploited and entrenched through a socio-psycho cultural dependence, even in death. Technology's ability for good is kept an arm's length away, behind an ever-receding horizon of exponential advancement and capital. What's the point? 