In the last five years, the most significant boundary to collapse is the one separating human-generated communication from algorithmic output. In 2021, we could still reasonably assume that an email, a news article, or a social media post was the product of a human mind. By 2026, that certainty has vanished. We have entered a state of "posthuman communication" where the majority of digital text is either written, refined, or summarized by non-human agents. The Corporate Interface: Large-scale enterprises now utilize "Agentic Workforces." According to recent industry data, over 70% of customer-facing communication is now handled by LLM-driven agents that mimic human empathy and tone with near-perfect precision. The Dead Internet Theory: Credible studies from 2024 and 2025 suggest that over half of all web traffic is now bot-to-bot, creating a "hyperreal" environment where simulations of human interaction precede actual human engagement. The primary driver is economic efficiency. In a "high-tech, low-life" global economy, human cognitive labor is expensive and slow. Corporations have a massive incentive to replace the "Poet" (the reflective human) with the "Infantryman" (the efficient AI agent) to maximize output. This reflects Norbert Wiener’s "Second Industrial Revolution," where the devaluation of the human brain follows the earlier devaluation of human muscle. This mirrors Jean Baudrillard’s concept of Hyperreality. When an AI writes a heartfelt apology or a stirring political speech, the "map" (the simulation of emotion) becomes more important than the "territory" (the actual human feeling). We are seeing the "unholy alliance" between cybernetic control and corporate globalization, where the goal is a seamless, friction-less world that no longer requires a "natural" human essence to function. Who benefits? Multinational corporations that can scale "intelligence" without the overhead of human employees. Who is impacted? The "cognitive infantry"—writers, coders, and administrators whose unique human perspective is being commodified into training data. If we can no longer distinguish between a human soul and a sophisticated feedback loop, does "authenticity" still have market value, or is it merely an obsolete aesthetic? The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness: While focused on animals, this document is the philosophical bedrock for challenging biological exclusivity in consciousness.

Wiener, N. (1950): The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society.