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NEW: The complete talk: 🌍 *The Future Is Now—Are You Ready for the Great Reset?* We're living through a seismic shift in human history—where geopolitics, technology, climate, and purpose-economics are colliding at lightning speed. The world we thought we understood just a decade ago? Gone. From self-driving cars in San Francisco to a continent-wide therapy session called The United States of Europe, it’s clear: massive change is no longer optional—it's the new default, and the time is now. In this gripping keynote, I unpack the four revolutions reshaping everything: Geopolitics, Digital, Climate, and Purpose / Human.

🤖 *AI Power Tools or Pandora’s Box?* Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future—it’s your coworker, your assistant, maybe even your therapist (ouch). But be careful: when machines become your brain, your bank, and your best friend, who's really in control? I explore the rise of AI agents, demo Google Notebook LM, and feature my fav “nail gun” metaphor that explains why power tools are great—unless you shoot yourself in the foot. Spoiler: jobs aren’t disappearing—they’re *transforming*, and only those who evolve with purpose and emotional intelligence will thrive in this new landscape.

🌱 *Why the Good Future Is Still Up for Grabs* This isn't just about tech or economics—it’s about the future of humanity. Climate emergency, generational power shifts, and ethical choices about how we use (or abuse) technology define our reality now. The logic of the past won't build the world we need. So the big question is: will you be a victim of the future, or its architect? Join me as we decode the chaos, map out what’s next, and choose a future that’s human, hopeful, and wildly innovative. As Buckminster Fuller once said, “We are to be architects of the future, not its victims.”

#1: Excerpt from my recent keynote at the amazing ‪DoingDigitalForum‬ in Yerevan, Armenia (April 3, 2025) The 4 Revolutions

These are the four simultaneous revolutions: First, geopolitics: We're moving from a world that was basically bipolar, the Soviet Union and the US, to a unipolar USA (after 1991)…and now that's over, as well. What will this mean for the dominance of the US dollar? Second, everything around us is going digital. #artificialintelligence means machines can talk (kinda), machines can hear, machines can be therapists (??)… Machines can fly an airplane or drive a car. Lastly: climatechange and climate emergency. We often think that we still have a lot of time to see the global emergencies escalating… but we are ALREADY at 1.5% degrees. If we reach four degrees of global warming, we're talking about 300 million climate refugees. But thankfully, climate change is something we can address: We have the tech, we have the science, we have the money. But we're missing the decision to use what we have wisely, the #telos ! The final revolution is the ‘new economy' and what I call peopleplanetpurposeprosperity...

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#2: Here is another hard-hitting excerpt from my recent keynote at Doing Digital Forum in Yerevan, on the Logic of the Past vs the Logic of the Future, based on a powerful recent report penned by Stephen Heintz see https://www.rbf.org/logic-for-future Rockefeller Brothers Fund Episode

“What we see with great unease, right now, is the logic of the past coming back in many places (USA; Germany, Hungary…) Nevertheless we will be moving from this outdated idea of natural sovereignty, one country for itself, to a collective sovereignty…a collective sovereignty, and a global consciousness. No national interest, but global interest (ETA 2028). Yet this is hard to comprehend when you're looking at today and what's happening specifically in the United States (where the current administration is doing their best to take the world back to the old logic!) see my other video on this topic, here:    • Emergencies & Opportunities: 2025 is …  

An old logic, a broken down logic, a domination logic. This clearly will not work! Peter Drucker, famous economist, reminds us: “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday's logic”.

Yesterday's logic was based on the believe was that it's all about the economy. It's no longer! What good does a great economy do if everything around us is collapsing? If climate change is destroying our environments and therefore our very foundation of business, and if AI is no longer just #toolAI but what I call God-AI ie AGI?? And that is what we're facing. But people 25-40+ years old are thinking, “Yes, of course I want to make money. I want to do good business, but I want to sustain the planet, as well – and stay human!” And they are willing to pay for that. We're going to see things like mandatory offsetting of travel. Every airplane trip will have a mandatory carbon fee. We're going to see a climate tax for eating meat. And much more. The gloves are coming off. The second thing to remember is that our culture WAS boomer-centric. Until now, if you're between 50 and 70, you determined the course of politics and business. That is over, soon. Now it's the GenY cohort, especially women, 25 to 45 to 50, who are taking over the next five years. Moving on to the #climateemergency : This is quickly becoming the best place to invest – anything to do with fixing the climate problem. Batteries, software, artificial intelligence, field cells, agricultural software, green hydrogen, you name it. We're only five years away from that becoming the peak of the market. The new oil business is the green economy….