{"product_id":"the-great-surrender-jesus-solis-9798186455592","title":"The Great Surrender: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Human Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe tend to think that every major technology changes what we can do.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book begins with a different possibility. Perhaps every major technology also changes what we no longer need to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom maps and writing to calculators, search engines, and artificial intelligence, every tool has relieved us of some intellectual burden. Most of those changes have made life richer, safer, and more productive. Yet every act of delegation carries a quieter consequence. When a task disappears, the kind of person that task once helped form may begin to disappear with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Surrender\u003c\/i\u003e is not a book about whether artificial intelligence is good or bad. It is an exploration of a much older question: what happens to human beings when thinking itself gradually becomes optional.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving through philosophy, history, language, education, and technology, Jesús Solís argues that the most important transformations of our time are not taking place inside machines but within ourselves. Artificial intelligence is not presented as an isolated invention, but as the latest chapter in humanity's long habit of transferring its abilities to its own creations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is neither a warning against technology nor a celebration of it. It is an invitation to reconsider the hidden value of the intellectual efforts we have always assumed were merely practical. Reading, writing, remembering, calculating, searching, and even struggling with uncertainty may have shaped us in ways that become visible only when we no longer need them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Yuval Noah Harari, Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, Matthew Crawford, and Nicholas Carr, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Surrender\u003c\/i\u003e offers a philosophical reflection on the future of human thought in the age of artificial intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesus Solis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798186455592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.15d","brand":"Jesus Solis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174247407871,"sku":"9798186455592","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-surrender-jesus-solis-9798186455592","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}