The Great Forgetting: How AI Is Quietly Erasing the Human Archive—and What Comes After
I started writing this article at 3:47 AM on a Tuesday, not because I'm a masochist, but because I've been staring at a screen for six hours trying to remember how I used to think before the machines started thinking for me.
I'm 45. I remember when "googling" something meant scanning ten blue links, synthesizing conflicting information, and arriving at your own conclusion.
I remember when writing code meant understanding every line, not describing intent to an autocomplete oracle and praying the output compiled. I remember when "research" was a verb that required effort.
That version of me is dying. And I'm not sure anyone's mourning him.
What follows isn't another breathless list of AI trends. You've seen those. "2026: The Year of Agentic AI!" "Quantum Breakthroughs Ahead!" "Super Agents Will Change Everything!"
The tech press has become a parody of itself, churning out identical predictions with the desperate energy...
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