The Risk of Another Revolution: Are We Outsourcing Our Thinking?

The Risk of Another Revolution: Are We Outsourcing Our Thinking?

April 30, 2026 · 20 min · Season 3 · Episode 140

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In this episode, Melissa Webb reflects on the implications of outsourcing our thinking in the context of historical revolutions and the current era of AI and robotics.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I reflect on a powerful idea I heard from Andrew Pudewa about how each major revolution has divided people into two groups. From the “hands and hands not” of the Industrial Revolution to the “maths and maths not” of the Information Age, we now find ourselves in the era of AI and robotics, where the divide may become the “thinks and the think nots.” So, what happens when we begin outsourcing not just our labor or our access to information, but our thinki...

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