Scott D. Anthony

The world stands at a crossroads.

There are a group of people who are extremely excited about artificial intelligence, what it can do to improve client service, what it can do to drive efficiency and effectiveness.

There's a group of people who say,

I'm not sure what we have unleashed here.

We are helping our clients be better than us and we are withering and atrophying our ability to develop young talent.

The essence of our model is going to disappear.

So I think McKinsey one way or another will feature in Epic Disruptions 2.0.

And then the third and final one that I would say

The clean tech world is a fascinating world.

I almost wrote and decided the story is still very much being written, a chapter on clean tech in the book.

But 20 years from now, I think we're going to have some clarity.

And I think a lot of the things that are happening right now will come together in ways that people don't expect because that's always what happens.

And I think we're going to see some really interesting and the optimist in me thinks powerfully and good things happen over the course of the next 20 years.

I very much hope I'm right about this.

Fantastic question.

So the printing press really changed everything.

Before the printing press, you could basically take all the books in the world and put them in a wagon.

By 1500, there are millions of books that are being produced.

So really democratized knowledge and enabled knowledge to spread and had lots and lots of knock-on effects.

So I think a few things that I would say, if you look at parallels from that to today's information revolution, number one, expect more people are going to know more things.