The Internet Needs More Human Beings
A case for digital agents that create more room for physical life.
Every conscious human will eventually have a digital counterpart: an agent that can organize information, broadcast ideas, coordinate opportunities, and turn knowledge into useful work while the physical person is elsewhere.
The interesting promise is not infinite productivity. It is reclaimed humanity. If our digital systems can carry repetition, scheduling, distribution, and administration, the body gets more time to love, explore, create, move, and pay attention to the physical world.
The danger is building digital copies that amplify our anxiety and hunger for validation. The opportunity is to create agents that express our values at their clearest—technology that handles the machinery of modern life without becoming the center of life.