"an Industrial Age life script - learn, work, retire. Yet, AI with human-like capabilities, able to operate around the clock, is making that script irrelevant. Our current educational, economic, and social frameworks weren't built for the speed and scale of today's change. When capabilities become obsolete faster than ever, what should we teach, and how? If expertise can be automated, what does human relevance in work really mean?"
"and social frameworks weren't built for the speed and scale of today's change. When capabilities become obsolete faster than ever, what should we teach, and how? If expertise can be automated, what does human relevance in work really mean? In a future that will require rapid adaptation, the static, three-stage life script no longer fits. Instead, we need a system where learning and work"
AI with human-like, always-on capabilities is accelerating skill obsolescence and decoupling productivity from human hours, shifting value toward judgment over execution. Traditional Industrial Age life scripts—learn, work, retire—no longer fit because educational, economic, and social systems were not designed for rapid, large-scale change. Future pathways require continuous integration of learning and work, credentials that interoperate with on-the-job development, and career structures supporting lifelong adaptation. Businesses are leading the shift by treating hiring as part of learning and embedding education into work. Reimagined systems must enable people to harness technological change rather than be overwhelmed by its speed.
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