Alchemy never made gold.
But it taught us how matter behaves.
Today, AI is asked to create a mind.
Maybe it won’t.
Yet along the way,
tools emerge—
new materials of thought,
new ways to see patterns,
new capacities that quietly reshape work, care, and discovery.
Nothing mythical appears.
Nothing absolute arrives.
Still, everyday life changes.
Some pursuits don’t succeed as imagined.
They succeed sideways—
by leaving behind technologies
that matter more than the original dream.
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