I have a hunch being human is about to become more valuable

This one is still a hunch.

I’m not presenting it as a trend forecast. I might be completely wrong.

But I can feel myself becoming more interested in things that are very human at exactly the point technology is making it possible for more and more of life to happen without much human interaction at all.

Conversation. Being in a room together. Travel. Eating around a table. Messy workshops. Physical things. Texture. People saying something they haven't rehearsed. Communities that aren't built around optimising yourself.

Humaning, for want of a better word.

AI can now help me write, think, research, plan, design, create, organise and make decisions. It is incredible. But I wonder whether abundance creates appetite for its opposite.

If everything can be polished, does imperfection become more interesting?

If content becomes infinite, does being present with ten actual people become more valuable?

If everything is optimised, do we start craving things with absolutely no measurable productivity benefit whatsoever?

I don't know.

There is also a danger here of romanticising the past. Humans were perfectly capable of being lonely, performative and disconnected before ChatGPT arrived.

But I think there is something bubbling.

Perhaps the next premium isn't access to more intelligence.

Perhaps it's access to more humanity.

I want to keep watching this one.