I’ve had some intense conversations lately—friends who run VC firms, founders building on the frontier of AI, and business owners seeing the shift in real-time. And whether we’re talking markets, technology, or workforce strategy, the same theme keeps surfacing.

The next three years will be defined by two unavoidable outcomes:

1. The Rise of Abundance

We are about to enter an era where information, intelligence, and energy become functionally infinite. Consider this: if solar-generating windows and rooftop materials actually deliver, electricity—the foundation of nearly every modern industry—could become not just cheaper, but free. Imagine running a home, a business, or a car with no electric bill.

But it doesn’t stop at energy. What happens when healthcare advice, once locked inside the minds of overbooked doctors, becomes instantly available via AI medical agents trained on every medical journal ever written? A recent Harvard study found AI gave pretty good answers considering it’s instant, on-demand 24/7, and completely free. You can extend this to legal advice, strategy memos, financial planning, educational tutoring—all unblocked by geography, cost, or availability?

We are not just lowering the cost of production—we are dismantling the scarcity of expertise itself.

The constraints of the past—time, scale, even capital—are starting to fade.

This isn’t hype. It’s happening.

Last month, I sat down with a senior leader at Tesla. We were talking about the future of mobility, and he casually mentioned something that stopped me cold: “We may not even need batteries in electric cars within a few years.” He explained how thin solar-generating material will soon cover the tops of vehicles. Windows, too, are evolving—now capable of generating solar energy through invisible layers. This wasn’t a pitch. It was a calm, matter-of-fact glimpse into a future where energy is just ambient

These breakthroughs are no longer science fiction. They’re just under-distributed.

AI is not just making work faster. It’s making entire categories of work obsolete—and unlocking productivity levels we’ve never seen before. Bill Gates recently said that in the future humans won’t be needed for “most things” in our lives. We are approaching a point where every individual will have leverage that once belonged only to the largest institutions. The playing field is tilting—fast.

2. The Employment Collapse

But while the top of the curve rises, the bottom is dropping out.

We are simultaneously heading into an unemployment wave that could easily exceed 20% in certain sectors. The traditional social contract—”learn a skill, get a job, stay employed”—is quietly being erased. It’s not just factory or customer service jobs at risk. It’s analysts, coordinators, junior developers, entry-level creatives. The ladder is being pulled up faster than most realize.

I remember grabbing coffee with a friend last month who leads a team of 80 at a mid-sized financial firm. He told me, half-whispering, that they had quietly laid off 12 junior staff after testing a handful of AI tools. “No one’s talking about it publicly,” he said, “but we don’t need the headcount anymore.” Multiply that across industries and you see the iceberg. It’s happening faster than you think.

And the scary part? It won’t feel like a collapse. It’ll feel like slow erosion. A job offer that never comes. A freelancer whose clients disappear. A manager whose team gets replaced by a stack of agents.

Those in power are not asleep. They’re just not incentivized to slow the machine down.

So what do we do?

Maybe nothing—yet.

This isn’t a call to panic or overhaul your life overnight. It’s a call to pay attention. To notice the signals beneath the noise. Because for all the hype cycles and clickbait forecasts, these two shifts—abundance and displacement—are already underway.

The real work is not to predict every implication. It’s to remain calm, curious, and clear-headed as they unfold. Don’t overreact. Don’t under-prepare. Just keep watching with precision.

Because by 2028, AI may no longer be a side topic in tech circles—it could be the central issue of the U.S. presidential election. Not just in terms of regulation or ethics, but as the defining force shaping jobs, identity, and national stability.

We’re not just witnessing a technological shift. We’re watching a civilization-level recalibration.

And the smartest thing any of us can do right now… is pay very, very close attention.