What Remains Human in an Optimized World?

In this episode of The Great Indoors, Shelly Palmer , tech strategist and CEO of The Palmer Group returns for his third appearance to explain why the digital world has become unrecognizable in just two years since his last appearance. Listeners will gain an inside look at the brutal reality of the media business, where traditional purchase funnels have collapsed in favor of short-form video and zero-click AI search results. The conversation provides a roadmap for the transition from simple automation to agentic AI. Autonomous systems that can now plan and initiate tasks independently and explores the rise of vibe coding, where English becomes the new programming language. So if you’re fascinated by media, machine learning, and the conversations shaping what comes next, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

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What Remains Human in an Optimized World? is an episode from The Great Indoors by The Great Indoors.

This episode is 1:17:38 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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