My prediction…
We are entering a period where knowledge as a currency is collapsing in real time. The ability to write, to research, to synthesize information, to produce competent work across essentially any knowledge domain is being democratized to the point of worthlessness as a differentiator. Anyone with a laptop and an internet connection can now produce in minutes what used to require years of specialized training and the market has not fully registered what that means yet but it will.
What rises in value when knowledge becomes abundant and cheap is everything that cannot be generated, replicated, or approximated by a system that has never felt anything. Genuine human emotion expressed through art, music, movement, storytelling. Creativity. Originality. The specific and irreplaceable quality of a performance that came from a real body with a real history and real pain and real joy behind it. Presence. The ability to move a room not through information but through feeling. Connection that is visibly and verifiably human in a landscape where the distinction between human and generated is becoming increasingly difficult to establish. I think we are about to enter a period where technical flawlessness becomes the hallmark of the artificial and imperfection becomes the watermark of the real.
Singing, dancing, painting, acting, writing that is unmistakably personal and unmistakably felt. Not because AI cannot produce technically competent versions of all of them but because technical competence was never actually the point and people are going to feel that absence acutely once it is the only thing on offer everywhere they look. Niche knowledge based on extensive experience that you won't find on google. Developing expertise in human messiness. Physical craft and making with your hands woodworking, pottery, cooking, tailoring, building. Being real and embracing imperfections. You’ll be fine…. You can't outwork the machine, you can't outsmart it, but you are the thing it is pretending to be.
