The Horizon of 2041: The World Your Child Inherits

How should someone prepare for 2041 when point forecasts about AI, housing, energy, demography, and institutions are likely to fail? This episode uses scenarios to separate volatile assumptions from more durable needs: judgment, relationships, meaning, adaptability, and the ability to become useful.

Its strongest unresolved question is the apprenticeship bottleneck. If organizations automate junior cognitive work but still need experienced human judgment, how does a novice acquire the experience required to become senior?

The scenario probabilities and many numerical projections are illustrative, not outputs from a reproducible forecasting model. They should not be relied upon as predictions. Sources were curated by Alex; dialogue audio was generated with NotebookLM.