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Ever since I first wrote about institutional realignment<\/a>, I have been more conscious of it and its implications on our lives. To a certain extent, even paranoid, because of the pace of change. Ray Kurzweil is hard at work<\/a> to make himself immortal<\/a>, and believes we should get really close by the 2030s<\/a>. He has been right before on many things of this nature. Moore’s law, digitisation and everything related are also getting us really close to the singularity<\/a>. I am reasonably convinced that I will see both in my lifetime. If you live to be 200 and have robots smarter than you around, what does that do to education, money, marriage, work and pretty much everything that constitutes life? On the flip side, natural resources are running out, and I can see the complications already. It’s not a good sight, or experience!<\/p>\n

I am finding it impossible to wrap my head around what all of \u00a0this would mean to our concept of life. In the meanwhile, I do know that everything is changing at breakneck speed, and in order to survive, we need to be cognizant of things that can impact our lives – as individuals, and as organisations. \u00a0I have deliberately avoided the word ‘disruption’ because it gives me a sense of suddenness and it is a furiously debated topic these days. Rather, to quote John Green (said in another context) I think we’re in the first state of “Slowly, and then all at once”.<\/em>\u00a0 This, is my take on ‘Change’.<\/p>\n

(Thanks Nikhil<\/a> for helping on a couple of alphabets and Amit<\/a> for Unsplash<\/a>, the source of many images used)<\/em><\/p>\n