The fictions are decaying because the constraints that created them are gone. This is not a crisis. It is not the end of meaning or value or human contribution. It is the end of a particular set of social technologies that were brilliant adaptations to a world of scarcity.

That world is over.

The new world, where energy is abundant, biology is programmable, and intelligence is a commodity, is not a utopia. It will have its own problems, its own constraints, its own fictions. We will have to build new social technologies for new challenges.

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