James Manyika

I don't know.

I guess we explore the universe.

We do creative things.

I don't know.

I'm sure we'll create some economic system that takes advantage of the things that people can still uniquely do.

even though they probably have a very different economic value and purpose.

I think humans will always find a way to create either literally or quasi-economic systems of exchange of something or other.

starting now, actually, in the next decade or two, I think there's several things.

There's actually a pretty robust list of things we need to do, actually, to tackle this issue.

I think one is just reskilling.

We know that there's already a shortage of skills.

We know, even before we think about

We've had skill mismatches for quite a while before any of this fully kicks in.

So this is a challenge we've had for a while.

So this quest of reskilling is a massive undertaking.

And here, the quest is really doing it at pace and scale.

Because while there are quite a lot of reskilling examples one can come across, and there are many of them that have been very successful, but I think the key thing to note about many of them, not all of them, but many of them,

is that they tend to be small.

One of the questions one should always ask about all the great reskilling examples we hear of is, how big is it?

How many people went through that program?