By Futurist Thomas Frey
We’re entering what I call the Era of Separation—a period where AI, robotics, and automation don’t just change society but fracture it into dozens of distinct populations living fundamentally different lives.
This isn’t the traditional divide between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, or even digital natives versus digital immigrants. This is something more complex and more profound: an entire architecture of new social separations emerging simultaneously, each creating populations with incompatible experiences, capabilities, and worldviews.
By 2040, the question “How do you live?” will have dozens of valid answers that describe completely different realities.
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