James Manyika

Well, first of all, thank you for having me.

Gosh, what are the most important problems in the world?

I think we have the challenge of climate change.

I think we have the challenge of inequality.

I think we have the challenge that economic growth and development is happening unevenly.

So I should say that the inequality question, I think, is mostly an inequality within countries, but to some extent also between countries.

And this idea of uneven development is that some countries are surging ahead.

and some parts of the world potentially being left behind.

I think we have other sociopolitical questions, but I'm not qualified to talk about those.

I don't really spend my time.

I'm not a sociologist or a political scientist, but I think we do have some sociopolitical challenges too.

Yeah.

But by the way, I should also, before I dive into that, also say, even though we have these problems and challenges, we also have incredible opportunities, quite frankly, for breakthrough progress and prosperity and to solve some of these issues and quite frankly, do things that are going to transform humanity for the better.

So these are challenges at a time of, I think, unprecedented opportunity and possibility.

So I just want to make sure we

We acknowledge both sides of that issue.

In terms of what we need to do about these challenges, I think part of it is also just quite frankly, facing them head on.

I think the question of climate change is one that is an existential challenge that we just need to face head on and quite frankly, get on with doing everything we can, both to mitigate the effects of climate change and also quite frankly, to start to adapt

how our society, our economy works to, again, address what is essentially an existential challenge.

I think what we do in the next 10 years is going to matter more than what we do in the 10 years after that.