When Knowing Loses Its Pace

Artificial intelligence dominates the conversation about the future. It is framed as a breakthrough, a threat, a productivity engine, or a moral challenge. What receives far less attention is a quieter but more consequential shift already underway: intelligence now moves faster than the human systems built to absorb it. This series examines what happens when that mismatch becomes structural—when discovery, inference, and action outpace review, coordination, and shared agreement. Each post traces how this pressure propagates through the system, reshaping how knowledge forms, how environments and institutions respond, and how human roles evolve. This first post begins where the effects appear earliest and most visibly: in the transformation of knowing itself.