🔮 The end of the fictions

The operating system of civilization is upgrading. Mark Carney noticed.

This post originally appeared in Exponential View.

“Between 2010 and 2017, three fundamental inputs to human progress crossed a threshold — and in doing so, upgraded the operating system of civilization.”

I just got back to London after a week at the Annual Meeting at Davos. For the past few years, the World Economic Forum had become a kind of parody of itself, a place where billionaires flew in on private jets to discuss climate change and “stakeholder capitalism” while nothing much seemed to happen. But this year was different.

The AI discussion at the Forum alone was proof of change. It was practical, CEOs asking each other: what’s actually happening with your workforce? Which skills matter now? Why is that company pulling ahead while everyone else flounders?