Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
Tech companies promise that AI will democratize education, giving every child a Harvard-level tutor. But the reality is far darker. AI is becoming the ultra-processed food of childhood development—cheap, mass-produced, and fed to those without alternatives. Meanwhile, the wealthy are paying a premium for human interaction. A chatbot-free childhood is the new luxury status symbol, and the class divide is about to get much worse.
The AI revolution isn’t creating a wealth gap — it’s creating a cognition gap. The new class divide separates those who understand AI (the adapted) from those who refuse to engage (the know-nots). Your Ivy League degree won’t save you. Only the willingness to learn will.
France’s air conditioning debate isn’t about culture or ecology — it’s about class. The affluent oppose AC on aesthetic and environmental grounds while the elderly and poor die in wet-bulb conditions they can’t escape. This is a luxury belief with a body count, and as global temperatures rise, every society will face the same reckoning.