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We're all children now

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Richard Merrick
Oct 01, 2016
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We face an interesting challenge. We're all living longer whilst change is happening faster. As the change that is happening faster also becomes more complex, the chances of us finding ourselves lost, hanging onto old ideas that no longer serve the new reality, gets exponentially greater. The rapid arrival and integration of artificial intelligence into our everyday lives, almost unseen, will transform every aspect of our lives, and worklives in the next few, short, years. So what do we do when we're lost? We do what we did naturally when we were children. we explore:

The Day Millicent Found the World

Every morning Millicent ventured farther into the woods. At first she stayed near light, the edge where bushes grew, where her way back appeared in glimpses among dark trunks behind her. Then by farther paths or openings where giant pines had fallen she explored ever deeper into the interior, till one day she stood under a great dome among columns, the heart of the forest, and knew: Lost.…

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