But what makes a person a futurist?

Well, there's the humorous joke, which is never being wrong today.

Okay.

The definition of a futurist.

But look, I think what makes a good futurist, the core discipline in futurism is something we call forecasting or super forecasting, so long-term forecasting.

So that's the, if you like, the academic discipline.

But what makes a good futurist in terms of personality is I think you have to be an optimist.

However, you're telling the world about that the banks are about to be dismantled.

I don't know what's your thoughts about that one.

There's two sides of that.

One is the economic question and the second is sort of the purpose question, right? And let me do the purpose question first.

And that is when I meet someone today, when we meet someone at a networking event or similar, one of the first things we ask is, and what do you do? And the answer to that question is this is my job.

This is the set of skills that I bring as an economic unit to the economy, right? But in, say, 15 to 20 years' time when I ask you that question, your answer to that question won't be connected with economics at all.

It'll be what you find meaningful, what you're passionate about, what you think can change the world.

Because the economics won't matter in that period of time if we do AI correctly.

Now, as an individual, how big is this risk of, am I going to lose my job in the next one, two years time, and what I should be doing now? if the risk exists.

Uh, how would I describe that to my C-suite audience in London?

I sort of see two competing ways that technology is being used, uh, today.

So, um, one would be, you know, the, the GCC, Saudi, uh, UAE approach, the Chinese approach.

It's probably gonna be the same in most of Europe, which is the technology's gonna be seen as a way to improve quality of life, lift, lift everybody up, you know, um, particularly f-things like education, healthcare access, um, you know, applied intelligence, et cetera.

That's gonna be the intent.

The intent will be how is this technology used to improve quality of life.

Whereas in the United States in particular, um, the objective's very different.

Where do you see Q-Day happening and, and why?