// Hacker Noon · 5 February 2026

The Written Word is Not Vanishing. It Is Being Reassigned

AI makes writing abundant and cheap, shifting its value from creation to curation. The future of literacy is editorial: knowing what to exclude, when language clarifies versus obscures, and which words carry real consequences. Text splits into two categories—durable "hard text" (laws, contracts, spe...

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