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If you are no longer in your 20s, do you remember what that time was like?

Do you remember a mix of possibility and panic when it came to your career?

In this talk, technologist Vlad Tenev takes us way back in the history of work and then rockets us forward through the massive tech revolutions that recent generations have lived through one after another.

Throughout, he traces one sweeping pattern that might leave us rethinking everything we thought we knew about AI, technology, and the future of work.

That was Vlad Tenev at TED AI in San Francisco, California in 2025.

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