Human Capacity Preservation Will Decide Our Future, #25

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We talk constantly about technology, artificial intelligence, automation, and speed. We argue about tools, ethics, productivity, and disruption. But beneath all of those debates sits a far more consequential issue:

Can humans remain viable inside the systems we are building?

This question will shape the next several decades of business, governance, and society. It determines whether progress continues, stalls, or collapses.

The risk we face is not that machines will become too intelligent. It is that human capacity—judgment, ethics, trust, meaning, and adaptive energy—will be exhausted by systems that no longer fit people.

Understanding this requires clarity about three things:

1. What healthy humans are capable of producing?
2. What humans require in order to remain viable?
3. How modern systems unintentionally degrade those capacities—and how that degradation can be reversed?

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