Hi there it's Azim. Now I have just come back from Davos in Switzerland where I was

attending the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum

as well as enjoying meetings and conversations with some of the 80,000 or so other visitors who

descend on that ski resort for the week.

It's quite a tiring period.

Across three days, I walked 64,480 steps in snow boots.

It's more than 45 kilometers more than 30 miles that was reasonably

tiring and I spent many hours probably more than 12 hours a day talking to

really interesting people many listeners of this podcast and readers of the

newsletter. We talked about AI, its impact on jobs, productivity, the economy. We talked

about climate change and climate crisis talked about new materials, batteries, electrification,

talked about how those trends are taking hold in different parts of the world.

Overwhelming sense I got. in different parts of the world.

Overwhelming sense I got is there's a series of multiple crises brewing.

That's perhaps why there were so many leaders gathering in Davos,

just an opportunity to congregate and talk through them and find points of commonality.

But alongside those crises is a sense of real excitement.

It's excitement driven not just by the technologies at scale, but also some deep, deep science that was also on display,

and all of that is finished off with a dusting of uncertainty.

Now in a sea of uncertainty, that sense of the unknowable,

I think a horizon scan can help people make better decisions

and it's better more helpful than a rear view mirror or any point

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