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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