When Brilliant Plans Meet Messy Reality: What “Solve Everything” Gets Right and Wrong About Our AI Future

By Futurist Thomas Frey

The Blueprint That Promises Everything

Peter Diamandis and Alexander Wissner-Gross just released “Solve Everything: Achieving Abundance by 2035″—a comprehensive blueprint for using AI to systematically solve nearly every major human challenge within a decade. Their central thesis: superintelligence is no longer a question of “if” but of “where we point it.”

They introduce frameworks like the “Industrial Intelligence Stack” for converting real-world problems into solvable systems. They outline 15 ambitious “Moonshots” from organ abundance to clean energy to orbital debris removal.

I’m a fan of both authors. The framework represents sophisticated thinking about AI’s potential. But when people get involved, even brilliant plans go sideways. Technology deploys into human systems filled with politics, incentives, and messy realities that resist elegant frameworks.

Let me take this vision seriously while examining it from the human perspective the blueprint sometimes overlooks.

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Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two — and one part will be led by China

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Speaking at a private event hosted by Village Global VC yesterday night, tech luminary and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted that the internet will bifurcate into Chinese-led and US-led versions within the next decade.

Under Sundar Pichai’s leadership, Google has explored the potential to launch a censored version of its search engine in China, stirring up controversy internally and outside the company.

Eric Schmidt, who has been the CEO of Google and executive chairman of its parent company, Alphabet, predicts that within the next decade there will be two distinct internets: one led by the U.S. and the other by China.

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