A rising narrative frames the present as the 'Action Age' — an era in which intelligence and the ability to act on it are abundant, shifting scarcity from information and attention to goals, judgement, and outcome execution. Organisations that win will be those that coordinate agents (human and machine) toward measurable outcomes rather than merely aggregate facts.
— Framing AI’s social impact as an epochal shift (Information→Action) reframes policy debates about education, labor, and governance around execution capacity and decision‑making, not just data access.
Arnold Kling
2026.09.05
100% relevant
Mark McNeilly’s essay (quoted in the roundup) explicitly contrasts the Information Age’s scarcity of attention with the Action Age’s scarcity of goals and judgement.
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