By Futurist Thomas Frey
The Skill We’re About to Lose Forever
By 2035, the concept of a “deadline” will sound as quaint as using an abacus for accounting. Not because work becomes less urgent, but because AI systems will have assumed complete responsibility for negotiating workloads, predicting bottlenecks, scheduling tasks, communicating with stakeholders, and adjusting timelines in real-time based on changing conditions.
Time management—the skill professionals spend careers developing, the discipline that separates successful people from struggling ones, the capability parents desperately try to teach their children—will become an AI function rather than a human competency. And most people won’t even notice what they’ve lost until an entire generation grows up never learning to manage their own time because algorithms have always done it for them.
The transition is already beginning. Calendar apps suggest meeting times. Project management software flags potential delays. Email assistants draft responses and negotiate scheduling. But these are primitive previews of what’s coming: AI systems that don’t just assist with time management but completely subsume it, operating across all your projects, commitments, and obligations simultaneously with coordination humans simply cannot match.
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