Is Abundance Inevitable? A 100-12 months Imaginative and prescient with McKinsey’s Chris Bradley
What if the “Black Mirror” model of the long run is fallacious? On this episode, Mike Palmer talks with Chris Bradley, Senior Companion at McKinsey and Director of the McKinsey International Institute (MGI), about his new e book, A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come.
Chris breaks down the “Machine of Progress” and explains why a “strategic optimism” mindset is crucial for navigating the following century. We discover a future the place world prosperity might attain Swiss requirements, the unconventional shifts in our demographics, and why AI may truly make us extra human.
Key Takeaways:
🌟 The Energy of Strategic Optimism: Why historic knowledge exhibits that humanity’s “fingerprint” is progress, not shortage.
🇨🇭 The Swiss Benchmark: A thought experiment on whether or not the worldwide financial system can develop 8.5x to make sure each particular person on Earth lives in addition to the Swiss do right now.
📉 The Demographic Cliff: How shrinking start charges in international locations like China and South Korea are making productiveness development a “do or die” necessity for our social methods.
🤖 AI as an Augmentation Device: Why the best employment development is occurring in essentially the most AI-uncovered fields and the way “The O-Ring Idea” explains the rising worth of human judgment.
🎓 Reimagining Education: A provocative have a look at why the schooling sector has seen excessive inflation however low innovation, and the way AI tutors might guarantee “no youngster is left behind”.
🍎 The Non-Zero-Sum World: Transferring previous the “Petri dish” mindset to know how assets like vitality and capital can broaden to fulfill world wants.
Key Assets:
📘 E book: A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come.
📊 MGI Report: Brokers, Robots, and Us.
🏒 Chris’s Earlier Bestseller: Technique Past the Hockey Stick.
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Smit, S., Bradley, C., Leung, N., Canal, M., Bush, J., Chen, S., Chettih, S., Mischke, J., & Seong, J. (2026). A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come. McKinsey International Institute.
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