The breaking of the world

What happens when the things that make you a good friend become products machines deliver? Will we talk less to each other and more to software programmed to sound like us, but owned by companies with their own interests to serve? Does it matter if the shoulder you’re crying on belongs to a company? AI is breaking the world from what it has been to what it is becoming. I’ve spent much of my adult life at keyboards, interacting and building things for others in the digital world AI is now remaking. But increasingly I feel meaninglessness in what I once believed in.I feel like a racecar driver in a world of driverless cars. A good direction giver in an age of Google Maps. An engaged conversationalist, but not one who catalogues and saves every part of a conversation to be reused and combined later into actionable insights.These skills matter to me. They’re part of who I am. But I can feel their place in the world diminishing as the intricacies of life move from the world of humans into…