Welcome to The Age of Abundant Intelligence
Exploring AI, imagination, and the future of human capability.
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We are entering a moment in history that feels strangely familiar and completely new at the same time.
For generations, intelligence was treated as one of the rarest human resources. The ability to analyze complex problems, synthesize information, and produce structured reasoning was a defining marker of expertise.
Lawyers trained for years to master it.
Scientists built careers on it.
Executives relied on it to make difficult decisions.
But artificial intelligence is beginning to change the economics of thinking itself.
Tasks that once required elite training can now be assisted by machines.
Research can be synthesized in seconds.
Arguments can be structured automatically.
Patterns can be detected across massive datasets.
We are entering what might be called the age of abundant intelligence.
When something moves from scarce to abundant, its value changes.
This raises fascinating questions:
What kinds of human intelligence still matter?
What happens to skills we once trained for years to develop?
Where does imagination fit in a world of powerful analytical machines?
This publication is an exploration of those questions.
The first series examines three ideas:
1. The Paper Chase and the End of Scarce Intelligence
How our cultural idea of intellectual excellence is changing.
2. Artists and Writers Made Artificial Intelligence
How imagination helped bring AI into existence.
3. Imagination Is the New Frontier
Why the human advantage may shift from analysis to vision.
Technology is evolving quickly.
But the deeper question is not what machines can do.
The deeper question is what kind of humans we want to become in response.
If that question interests you, you’re in the right place.