Technology rules the conversation now. Algorithms can produce a draft translation in seconds, and speed has become the metric everyone talks about. That's real, and there's no use pretending otherwise.

But speed was never the point of language. Words carry consequence — in a contract, a testimony, an arbitration award — and consequence requires someone who understands what's actually at stake, not just what's statistically likely.

Judgment built from experience.
Accountability with a name attached.
The discernment to know when the fast answer isn't the right one.

Technology will keep advancing. It should. But if we let go of the human essence, the part that understands context, carries responsibility, and means what it says, we lose the thing that gave any of this purpose in the first place.

Because otherwise, what is all this for?