When Intelligence Becomes Abundant: How artificial intelligence is forcing a deeper question, not about what machines can do, but about what humans are for?
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“Something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born.” — Václav Havel
Havel wrote these words as he watched old political, social, and ideological systems collapse across Eastern Europe. He wasn’t describing a single event. He was describing the lived feeling of transition, the uneasy period where the old world still exists, but no longer fully explains the reality people are experiencing.
"Something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born.” — Václav Havel
Moments like that don’t stay confined to politics. They appear whenever the structures that organise knowledge, power, and identity begin to shift at a civilisational level.
We may be living inside one of those moments now.
We have entered a moment in history where intelligence, information, and production are becoming widely accessible. When that happens, civilisations don’t simply get more efficient, they start asking deeper questions about meaning, truth, identity, and responsibility.
This latest essay explores why the coming renaissance may be less technological and more human. Not about what machines can do, but about what remains uniquely human when knowledge is everywhere.
If you’re interested in leadership, culture, and the work of living coherently in a world of accelerating change, you’ll find the full essay on Substack.
