Tech that encourages human agency: freedom to act within the digital environment, with ownership and expression.
Contrary to agentic AI, which focuses on the agency of artificial intelligence (e.g. a chatbot that can book flights for you).
Non-agentic tech:
Social media platforms (rented space, metaphor of marketplace)
Agentic tech:
- Allows Folksonomy
- Decentralize / decenter
- Currently preventing more agentic software:
- Security measures requiring complex backend and auth
Sources
Jacky Zhao’s Agentic Computing