A closer look
We often worry about machines taking our jobs, but here’s the twist—they don’t just replace us, they reshape us. Sit in an office and you’ll see workers patterning their tasks after spreadsheets, squeezing flexible human thoughts into neat rows and columns. Students, once writing for teachers’ eyes, now craft essays for the invisible gaze of algorithms, trimming creativity to match machine preferences. Little by little, we imitate the very systems meant to imitate us. It’s as if the mirror we built to reflect human thought is quietly training us to become more like the reflection—streamlined, logical, almost machine-readable.
