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We Were Told Education Would Save Us. Nobody Told Us What Came After.
For generations, we were told that education was the safest path to a stable and successful life. But what happens when you earn the degree, follow the rules, work hard—and still can’t find the life you were promised? Perhaps it’s time to rethink what education can actually give us, and what it never could.
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When Intelligence Becomes Cheap, What Happens to Being Human?
AI is making intelligence increasingly abundant. Writing, research, coding, design, and countless other skills can now be produced in seconds. But if machines can perform the things humans spent their lives mastering, what happens to our skills, our identity—and ultimately, our sense of what makes us valuable?
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The AI Revolution Won’t Make Everyone Rich. It Will Make the Gap Much Bigger
Artificial intelligence will almost certainly create enormous wealth. But the real question isn’t whether AI will make society richer—it’s who will own that wealth, who will benefit from it, and who will be left behind. The AI revolution could democratize opportunity, or it could make the gap between the powerful and everyone else much wider.
Welcome to The Last Good Decade, a digital time capsule dedicated to celebrating the peak of human culture in the 1990s—when dial-up chimes replaced existential dread, Blockbuster weekends were sacred, and the future still looked bright—while chronicling the slow, fascinating decline of modern society ever since we traded our Walkmans for algorithmic despair.
