Survival of the Fastest

You can learn more in one year than you did in the last decade. The world has moved fast. Technology has accelerated the passage of time itself, so much so that we can't keep up with it. Every few years we realise we've fallen behind. We aren't slow. The pace of technology is simply too much. We are always playing catch-up. The AI race has made us feel inferior on a grand scale. We haven't had to think about survival in years. Now we do. We have to reassess everything, from the ground up, right from how we were educated to how we leveraged our academic degrees. Organisations are turning ruthless. The world is turning Darwinian. Survival of the fittest. But this fear has another side. On one hand, you can be replaced instantly. On the other, you can replace somebody else. It's a dog-eat-dog world after all. It might sound like an episode straight out of The Walking Dead. In theory, it's something like that. Whoever wins, survives. Or one could say whoever survives this onslaught has…