We believe the coming decade will be the most consequential period in human history.

After more than 250 years of accelerating technological progress, humanity now faces a wave of change unlike anything we have experienced before. According to Lord Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMind, the technological transformation now underway could be ten times more powerful than the Industrial Revolution  and it is unfolding ten times faster.

We are hoping to facilitate a global conversation where we explore ways for all of us to better prepare for this unprecedented 100x fold challenge coming our way. Moreover, many AI futurists tell us that these dramatic advances in technology could enable humanity to build a post-scarcity world — a world of widespread prosperity where poverty, hunger, disease, and even the necessity of work could eventually be eliminated.

In our first online book, The Great Transition, we conclude that such a future is technologically feasible. However, we also believe that this future will not emerge automatically. It will require thoughtful planning, global cooperation, and the active participation of people around the world in designing the pathways that lead us there.

To help address this challenge, One World is inviting K–12 educators, students, and global citizens to participate in a worldwide dialogue on the future of humanity that we are calling the Great Transition Roadmap Challenge.

The reason for this awkward sounding name is because the futurists paint a clear picture of the future but they do not tell us how we transition from here – a world of scarcity where 193 competing nations states are armed to the teeth operating under a  Zero Sum mindset to the utopian future envisioned by the futurists.   In order to make this transition we need your help which is why we are facilitating this global conversation.