We’re entering an age where thinking itself is becoming a service. Once, technology expanded our ability to reason; now, it often replaces it. The rise of AI, social media, and passive information culture has turned reflection into reaction, and judgment into consensus. This essay explores how we’ve begun outsourcing the most human act of all — the act of reasoning — and what it means for our collective intelligence, morality, and future.
The Outsourcing of Reason
We’re entering an age where thinking itself is becoming a service. Once, technology expanded our ability to reason; now, it often replaces it. The rise of AI, social media, and passive information culture has turned reflection into reaction, and judgment into consensus. This essay explores how we’ve begun outsourcing the most human act of all — the act of reasoning — and what it means for our collective intelligence, morality, and future.