Human flourishing is the purpose of technological progress.
Our standard
Human flourishing. For everyone.
Human flourishing means people are healthy, capable, connected, and able to shape their own lives. It's the standard we hold technology to, and the reason this week exists.
The architecture of flourishing
Three systems. One interconnected future.
The most important work of the next decade sits at the intersection of human potential and technology. Human flourishing is the North Star. Work, healthspan, and cities are the three systems through which people experience daily life. Progress in one strengthens the others.
01
Work
Expanding how people earn, contribute, learn, exercise agency, and create value.
02
Healthspan
Improving wellbeing, longevity, mental health, care delivery, and prevention.
03
Cities
Building civic systems, infrastructure, institutions, and governance that enable people and communities to flourish.
Four forces shape what those systems become.
01
Technology
Creates new capabilities.
02
Innovation
Turns capability into products, practices, and systems.
03
Culture
Shapes what people understand, value, trust, and adopt.
04
Capital
Determines which ideas advance and at what scale.
Why now
The next five years will shape how we live with AI.
Work, health, and cities form an interdependent system where shifts in one ripple through the others. As AI reshapes all three faster than institutions can adapt, choices made over the next five years will have long-term impact.
$540B
Future of Work
$10.0T
Future of Healthspan
$3.76T
Future of Smart Cities
Sources: GWI 2025 Monitor ($9.8T 2029, ~$10.0T 2030 at 7.6% CAGR); Grand View Research; Mordor Intelligence; ABI Research; MarketsandMarkets; Gartner; Juniper
The systems are connected. The people shaping them should be, too.