The Paradox of Progress in the Digital Age Extracted Dasein and the Ethics of Sufficiency under Conditions of Algorithmic Stabilization Revised Edition — with expanded engagement with Bernard Stiegler, differentiation from Han and Zuboff, and an operationalized research program

Contemporary digitalization is commonly described through the languages of innovation, connectivity, efficiency, and technological progress. This article argues that such descriptions remain incomplete because they primarily measure what digital systems enable while insufficiently examining what they progressively consume. Drawing on the ontology of finite continuance, the article develops an erosive account of digital existence in which the central problem is not technological mediation as such, but the systematic narrowing of the subject's capacity to revise the determinations through which its future becomes possible. The concept of the Extracted Dasein names a condition in which a person may remain behaviorally functional, productive, connected, and apparently autonomous while undergoing a progressive extraction of reconfigurative capacity. This revised edition situates the framework more precisely within the philosophy of technology by engaging Bernard Stiegler's account of grammatization and tertiary retention, by distinguishing Extracted Dasein explicitly from Byung-Chul Han's burnout society and Shoshana Zuboff's surveillance capitalism, and by proposing operational indicators for the framework's central empirically testable claims. The article proceeds through six conceptual interventions culminating in an Ethics of Sufficiency grounded in the principle of non-appropriation of the future, and proposes Responsible Suspension and regulated permeability through the Dynamic Mask as mechanisms for preserving reconfigurative capacity. The article does not claim that digital technology inherently produces ontological erosion; it identifies a structural tendency within particular forms of digital organization and argues that technological progress must be evaluated not only by increased capability, speed, or predictive accuracy, but by whether it preserves the conditions under which finite beings can remain capable of becoming otherwise. Keywords: finite continuance; Extracted Dasein; digital ontology; erosive ontology; algorithmic governance; Simondon; Stiegler; grammatization; teleological emergence; Ethics of Sufficiency; Responsible Suspension; Dynamic Mask; reconfigurative capacity; non-appropriation of the future