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Notes on energy, automation and AI: where the technology is heading, and what that means for the businesses building through it.
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Your workforce in 2035 (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 11)
Human enhancement is arriving faster than your strategic planning cycle, with exoskeletons, AR, and neural interfaces moving from therapy to competitive necessity.
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The Digital Health Revolution and Predictive Medicine (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 10)
AI, continuous biosensing, and genomic medicine are converging to shift healthcare from reactive treatment to predictive prevention.
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The Longevity Economy (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 9)
As scientists reverse aging in primates and clear senescent cells in humans, every business assumption built on a 78-year lifespan is shifting.
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Intelligence as a Service and New Business Models (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 8)
Commoditized intelligence is rewriting the rules of business at unprecedented speed as token prices fall and AI becomes as fundamental as electricity.
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Physical Automation and Post-Labor Economics (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 7)
The physical world is becoming programmable as general-purpose humanoid robots cross from research curiosity to commercial reality.
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AGI and the Productivity Singularity (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 6)
Artificial general intelligence is arriving between 2027 and 2032, and smart companies are already experiencing 10x to 50x productivity gains today.
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Energy Abundance as Business Transformation (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 3)
While everyone debates climate policy and electric cars, something more fundamental is unfolding: energy is becoming absurdly cheap and abundant.
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Fusion and the Ultimate Energy Arbitrage (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 4)
Fusion energy, long a running joke as always '50 years away,' is finally knocking on our door, and it could make electricity almost free.
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Space-Based Energy and Planetary-Scale Business (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 5)
Giant solar panels in space beaming energy to Earth are no longer Hollywood fantasy. We're at the inflection point for space-based solar power.
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First Principles for the Abundance Economy (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 2)
Business is moving from an economy built on scarcity to one thriving on abundance, and the old rules of hoarding resources are crumbling fast.
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Why 2025-2035 Will Compress 100 Years of Progress into 10 (The Inflection Decade: Chapter 1)
The next decade will compress 100 years of change into 10, driven by three forces converging at once: abundant intelligence, energy, and time.
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The Seven Pillars of Infinite Abundance: Automation’s Path to Type 1 Civilization
To reach a future of abundance for everyone, we need to build seven major systems. Each is amazing alone; together they create abundance for all.
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The 90 Million TWh Challenge: Three Paths to Energy Hyperabundance
A Type 1 civilization requires consuming as much energy in one hour as humanity now uses in a year. Earth alone cannot power it, but three paths can.
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Earth as Garden, Space as Workshop: A Case for Orbital Economy
Picture Earth in 2120 with its industry relocated to orbit. The orbital economy isn't utopian fantasy, it's the logical endpoint of economic forces already in motion.
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AI and the future of work: Why the robots are here to help, not replace us
Despite anxiety about AI eliminating jobs, the data tells an optimistic story: the WEF projects 78 million net new jobs globally by 2030.
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The $367 Trillion Opportunity: How Keeping Humans Young Unlocks Planetary Prosperity
Extending healthy human lifespan by just 10 years could generate $367 trillion in economic value, according to Harvard and Oxford economists.
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Energy = Prosperity: How Power Drives Economic Growth and Human Flourishing
Satellite images of Earth at night capture a fundamental truth: the link between energy consumption and prosperity, and the path to a Type 1 civilization.