There is a version of the future that almost no one is talking about honestly. Not the dystopian one where AI takes your job - that conversation is already exhausting and largely beside the point. The more interesting, more quietly unsettling version is this: what happens to the human mind when the cognitive labour it has always used to define itself - imagining, connecting, inventing, speculating - becomes something a machine does faster, cheaper, and with less friction? Thi