12/23/2025
The blank page has left the chat.
This isn’t an essay about AI tools. It’s about literacy, authorship, and what happens when systems start speaking before we decide what we mean.
I’ve watched this cycle before.
Y2K. 2008. 2020.
Every bubble bursts at the same fault line: literacy.
This time, the blank page didn’t disappear.
It stopped waiting.
Full piece on Substack:
By James A. Thomas IV, Ed.M., B.Sc. Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Aqua Ideation
