“The future will be far more surprising than most people realize, because few observers have truly internalized the implications of the fact that the rate of change itself is accelerating....”
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near
Introduction | 5
A New Digital Reality | 6
A Lexicon for the Digital World | 8
Converging Technologies Accelerate Digital Everything | 9
Digital Doppelgängers | 10
Spatial Web / Web 3.0 | 11
AI-Powered Metamorphosis | 12
Where Did All the People Go? | 14
AI-Powered Smart Objects | 16
Automating AI-Powered Revenue Growth | 17
The Gateway to Exponential Value Creation | 19
Retail 4.0: A New Business Model for FMCG Retail | 21
In the Digital World, Speed Rules | 24
Are You a Caterpillar or a Butterfly? | 27
It’s All About Possibilities | 29
Mind the (Expectation) Gap | 31
Planning in a Time of Exponential Change | 32
Guardrails for an Uncertain Path | 33
Three Steps to Prepare for the Future | 34
Call to Action | 37
Additional Resources | 38
About Gary Hawkins | 39
