AI in 2025 is Here to Eat Your Lunch: A Recipe to Help You Stay Relevant

The future is here, and it's weirder than you think. In this episode of Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization, we’re tearing down the illusions of certainty and exposing the brutal reality of exponential change with global futurist and author John Sanei. AI, blockchain, quantum computing—if you have time to catch up, think again. Our obsession with efficiency and outdated thinking is dragging us down, while the future demands adaptability, experimentation, and a whole new way of leading. It’s time to unlearn everything you thought you knew, ditch the fear, and start shaping what’s next—before it shapes you. No fluff. No hand-holding. Just raw, unfiltered insights to help you stay relevant in a world evolving at breakneck speed. Key Insights: - The Challenge of Adapting to Exponential Change "Our educational system over the last 200 years has prioritized efficiency and repetition over any sort of adaptability and experimentation." - The Importance of Unlearning and Cultivating Adaptability: "The only thing that we're hearing is that AI is coming to eat our lunch right before our eyes. So we're a little bit petrified by that." - The Power of Future Memories: “Neuroscience is proving to us that we have between 60 to 70,000 thoughts a day and our brains have calcified into a personality trait and personality type by the time we're 35 years old." About John Sanei John is a global futurist, best-selling author, and has been recognized as one of the world’s Top 10 Futurist Professionals of 2024. With 11 books to his name - 5 of them best-sellers - John helps Fortune 100 companies, governments, and royal families rethink the future and navigate human-A.I dynamics. He’s the co-host of the 2x award-winning podcast The Expansive, a contributor to NASA’s Vision 2040 project (yes, the one building a self-sustained city on the moon). He serves on the faculty at Singularity University, Duke Corporate Education, and the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.

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AI in 2025 is Here to Eat Your Lunch: A Recipe to Help You Stay Relevant is an episode from Geeks Geezers and Googlization Podcast by Ira S Wolfe.

This episode is 34:42 long.

This episode was published on Jan 21, 2025.

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