How to Future-Proof Your Life
Skills you’ll need to survive what’s next
The world is changing fast.
The perfect storm is forming — global warming, pandemics, disruptive technologies, exponential growth, and so on — Any one of these alone has the power to alter the world in unprecedented ways, but combined, the results compound and accelerate into something unimaginable.
And yet, we act as if nothing is happening. We keep planning for the future like it was some continuation of the past — we daydream about our children becoming lawyers, doctors, and engineers and expect they’ll live a life very similar to ours.
The chances of that happening are virtually zero
Not only we have predictable changes — A.I, Automation, robotics, and the like — also, we have black swans — rare events impossible to foresee with vast consequences — and there is no way to prepare for those.
COVID-19 has been quite bad but it’s not a black swan, scientists have been warning about it for years. If the damage has been so big for something predictable, what will happen when we are hit by something unpredictable?
What can we do to get ready for the future?
