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When 19-year-old Cole Cooper walked out into a cool May night earlier this year, no-one would have imagined he was in the final hours of his life.

There, in the confines of its pages, Nora recognizes that her father has a much more innate and perceptive knowledge of her that neither of them ever could’ve imagined.

"This isn't the ending I imagined, but I'll cherish this forever," the performer, 45, said in a post in Instagram.

What we imagined then, and how the internet actually changed jobs—sometimes loudly, often quietly—suggests a lot about today’s artificial-intelligence moment.

“I know I have to pay my dues,” she says, “but it’s difficult finding a job that uses my degree in the way I imagined.”