
The Next Ten Years
How AI, Climate, and Converging Megatrends Will Reshape Daily Life by 2035
By Shane Larson
About This Book
The future isn't arriving one trend at a time. It's arriving all at once.
Five massive forces are accelerating simultaneously right now. Artificial intelligence is rewriting how work gets done. Climate change is reshaping where and how people live. Demographic shifts are upending the economic assumptions that entire welfare systems were built on. Geopolitical realignment is redrawing the global order in real time. And macroeconomic pressures are transforming what prosperity even means for the people trying to build it.
Individually, any one of these would be enough to define a generation. Together, they are about to collide in ways almost nobody is preparing for — because most analysis still treats them as separate stories when they are clearly one interconnected one.
The Next Ten Years maps those converging forces through research-backed analysis and immersive human vignettes — a logistics manager in Phoenix, a teacher in Seoul, a farmer in Nigeria, a software engineer in Berlin — grounding abstract megatrends in the daily lives they will actually reshape. This isn't science fiction. It's pattern recognition applied to forces already in motion.
What you'll discover:
- How AI will transform your job — not just whether it replaces you, but how it changes what being good at your work actually means
- Why climate adaptation matters more than climate debate — and the practical ways it will alter where you live, what you eat, and what you pay for insurance
- The demographic cliff most developed nations are approaching — and why it will affect everything from housing prices to healthcare wait times
- How geopolitical fragmentation is creating a world of competing technology ecosystems, supply chain blocs, and digital borders
- Three scenarios for 2035 — optimistic, baseline, and turbulent — with concrete details about what daily life looks like in each
- A personal strategy framework for positioning yourself and your family to navigate whichever scenario unfolds
What makes this book different: Most future-focused books pick one trend and ride it for 300 pages. This one is built around convergence — the messy, unpredictable, and surprisingly navigable reality of multiple megatrends arriving simultaneously. You won't just understand what's coming. You'll see it through the people living it.
The future belongs to people who prepare for it. Start here.
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