Change doesn't care if you're ready.

Within my lifetime, male life expectancy has increased by over 50%, and it seems likely the first person to live to 500 through medical intervention has already been born.

Also during this time, the invention of the computer chip and the internet has created an engine that moves change from rapid and linear, to continuous, exponential, and chaotic.

Despite this, we have yet to grasp the implications. We still educate our children for jobs, and expect to retire comfortably in our 60's, supported by an economy predicated on constant growth. We are regarding the harbingers of radical change, from climate change to BREXIT and TRUMPIN, as anomalies - a brief blip before normal returns. That seems unlikely.

The intersection of longer lives and exponential change looks likely to dismantle the way we work. By their very nature - love of certainty and a bias to entropy, conventional organisations will struggle, and their lifespans will continue to decline. Relying on them for jobs and economic gr…