Sometimes things sit in plain sight and we completely overlook them.  This is true of trends in the world that seem to  arrive suddenly but were a long time in coming.  We are all poised at that moment in time.  It is right under our nose–the early phases of the end of capitalism as we know it.  It is not walking out the door all at once but it is definitely getting dressed to leave.

We have entered the next phase of human endeavors, the age of access.  I have been calling it the shared economy but it is much more than that.  Not only will be sharing but we will not be working as we do now.  For the first time since we left our “swinging- from- the -trees days”, human labor will be replaced by artificial intelligence and robotic assistants.  Even jobs that seem impossible …