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Students graduating from universities in the spring of 2026 will not have the career they thought they would have by the end of the next 5000 days. People who are between 35 years old and 45 years old will live through a time that could leave them adrift in life’s meaning, as the things they thought would be forever at 25 years old rapidly become like an ancient memory in the next 5000 days.

The rate of change is accelerating; what would take three generations for most of human existence now happens in a few months, and in the next 5000 days, in a few days. I write a lot about technology, but what about you and me? We all define ourselves by what we do. When we first meet someone, it seems natural for a majority of us to wonder or outright say: “So, what do you do for a living?” Indeed, what will we do “for a living” when we enter what I have called The Age Of Abundace in a lecture I gave in 1980?

The transformation of “what we do” will have less and less relationship to “a living”. It is not science fiction, and one only has to look at the last five years of AI across all metrics, this is scheduled to 100x accelerate, and not even the folks on the back of this beast have any real idea of how this will play out. Most have not thought about this more than a decade at best, and if that only in some Science Fiction Dystopia ot Utopia. It will be neither, and the history of humanity has always shown us.

Link: https://readmultiplex.com/2025/12/24/you-have-5000-days-how-to-navigate-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-1/