I watched a creator interview his mom about her life through a pair of Meta Ray-Ban glasses.
The video ran a few minutes long. At some point I stopped seeing the glasses at all. I just saw a son asking his mom questions he'd never thought to ask before, and her face lighting up as she answered them.
That's when it clicked.
The better technology gets, the more it disappears from sight.
The internet's AI debate feels like everyone arguing about the wrong thing. One side says AI is destroying everything that makes us human. The other side says it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I live somewhere in the middle. And the more I look around, the more I think it's where the interesting questions actually are.
“What happens when technology gets so good it disappears, and we're left with more space, more time, and a clearer view of what actually matters?”
If AI is here to handle the time-consuming tasks that usually pull us away from thinking, connecting, and feeling... why is that bad?
When technology stops demanding your attention, you get to be present.
The Meta Ray-Bans don't force you to hold a device in your hand at a fixed angle to get the shot. They don't take you out of the moment. You just live the moment and the capture happens.
That's a small thing on paper and a massive shift in practice. Most technology asks you to look at it. The best technology lets you look at everything else.
The barrier between “I have something to give” and actually giving it is collapsing in real time.
I saw a video on Toby “Tigerheart” Grear, a professional MMA fighter running a martial arts school in North Carolina. He used Perplexity to rebuild his website, unlock online classes, and streamline his entire business. Direct quote: “None of this was possible even a year and a half ago.”
A year and a half. Not a decade. Not “someday when the tech catches up.”
Small business owners can now rebuild their website, create a marketing plan, and delegate the busywork that eats their time, without a team and without a budget that would have made it impossible before. They can spend more hours serving the people they built their business for in the first place.
This is the part I wish the anti-AI crowd would see. AI isn't just automating jobs. It's removing the barriers between someone with something to give and the people who need what they have.
When AI handles more of the daily noise, we're forced to sit with an even harder question:
“Who am I, actually? And what do I want?”
There's a quote from Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher from the 1600s, that's somehow still true four centuries later:
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Most people are terrified of that room. The silence. The forced conversation with yourself. The answers that might come back.
So if AI frees up time to sit with your thoughts and opens doors you couldn't reach before... what's the problem?
The problem isn't the technology. The problem is that the technology hands your a gift and most people will fill the space with more noise instead.
The anti-AI narrative misses the opportunity completely.
AI has us craving human connection more than ever. It's the tool that enables that connection. And the question I keep coming back to is simple.
If technology keeps getting smarter, and it will, what do I actually want to do with the space it creates?
I don't have a clean answer. But I know the space itself is real, and it's growing. Some people will fill it with distraction. Others will fill it with the conversations they never had, the projects they never started, the version of themselves they kept putting off.
That second group is the one I want to be in.
The glasses disappear. The noise fades. What's left is you, your people, and whatever you decide to build with the time you just got back. That's not something to be afraid of.
Stay curious and stay warm. The adventure's just getting interesting.