The quote opens with a simple observation: we now live amid an abundance of answers that are fast, polished, and often machine-produced. Search engines summarize, chatbots draft, and recommendation systems preselect what we should read, buy, or believe. Because these outputs are optimized for plausibility and convenience, they can create the impression that knowledge is cheap and certainty is abundant.
Yet this abundance changes the meaning of an “answer.” When many responses are generated from patterns rather than lived experience, the real challenge is no longer finding text—it is judging what deserves trust. That shift sets the stage for why a distinctly human capability becomes more valuable, not less. [...]
