Neil Postman's Building a Bridge to the 18th Century Book Takeaways on How to Work with AI through Enlightenment Habits

You've used AI to write a report, prep a presentation, and draft a client email — all before lunch. It was fast. It was clean. And then a quiet question appeared: "If it can do all of this… what exactly am I for?"

That's not a small question. And Neil Postman wrote the answer in his final book.

In this series finale of The Postman Files on Technology and Career, we unpack Building a Bridge to the 18th Century — Postman's most hopeful and practical work — and translate it into a clear blueprint for how to work with AI without losing what makes you irreplaceable.

Postman's argument cuts to the core of modern technology and work: AI is the greatest answer-giving machine ever built. But it cannot as ...