Library fatigue
Perhaps this has happened to you: You’re at the reference desk of the library, with the answer to any question available–and you can’t think of anything to ask.
And there’s the vegetable blindness that occurs at a really good farmer’s market. After a few stalls, it’s hard to imagine what to cook.
Shortly after high-speed internet arrived, this mind-blanking set in for many people… you could look up anything on Wikipedia, listen to any song, read any recipe–and in that moment, our curiosity seemed to fade.
And of course, with Claude and other AI tools here, it’s now a worldwide epidemic. We can find information, get tutored, create code, build illustrations, narrate projects… a team of free interns, ready to give it a go.
We have the keys to the car, and it’s got a full charge… where are we going to go now?