Every essay argues AI automation will shift economy from renting old knowledge to creating new knowledge
danshipper · x · 2026-09-10
Matt Cynamon's essay for Every's After Automation series argues that demand, automation, and labor dynamics will massively shift the economy from renting out existing knowledge to creating new knowledge. As AI commoditizes existing knowledge work, the creation of new knowledge becomes the scarce resource — a period he frames as a potential 'Golden Age of Human Discovery.'
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