I’m going to share something with you that most people won’t see until it’s already happened.
A week ago, I attended the Abundance360 Summit in Los Angeles. It’s a $30K a year mastermind for CEOs and founders who want to learn about exponential technologies.
It’s one of the most important events if you’re looking to grow and expand your business in the age of AI.
I learned from industry titans like Peter Diamandis, tech leaders building the next generation of agentic AI, and even Elon Musk, who dropped in for a conversation over Zoom.
What they shared is a picture that you will see as scary or beautiful, depending on your lens.
This is what I’m going to share in this newsletter.
A stark prediction from people building the tech that will change the world.
When the event ended, I grabbed footage, took notes, and compiled everything using my own personal AI.
And on the final day of the event, I found myself sitting around a quiet fire with Peter Diamandis, Keith Ferrazzi (the relationship architect and Mindvalley author behind Ultimate Leadership), and a couple of tech visionaries.
The conversations were different at night. Less public. More real.
I got Peter’s permission to share what was said.
And sitting around that fire, I realized something that’s been keeping me up ever since.
What keeps me up at night is the gap between what we as human beings see happening and what the world is really understanding.
What Peter actually said that night
These are my connected notes from listening to Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis.
Peter laid out three waves of economic transformation with such mathematical certainty, such engineering clarity, that I realized: this isn’t prediction. It’s engineering that’s already underway.
This is what’s going to happen over the next 10 years.
Wave one · 2025–2028: Automation and job displacement
Think about the Industrial Revolution. Twenty-five years of displacement — of pain, upheaval, and social transformation — before the world adapted to machines replacing physical labor.
We are going to experience the equivalent of that 25-year transition in approximately two years. Expect major upheaval between 2027 and 2029.
AI gets cheap and ubiquitous. Not in the way it feels now — where you open a browser and type a question. The way electricity got ubiquitous. Invisible. Everywhere. Assumed.
People are losing their jobs. Young college graduates can’t buy cars. They’re angry. The government does the only thing it can: print money. Call it UBI.
Peter’s estimate: $3,000–$4,000 a month. Maybe more.
Everyone, he went on to say, will get an income check from the government of around $36,000 a year.
In this first wave, the government starts printing money to cover the cost of this great upheaval:
- money to fund the unemployed
- money for universal basic income
- money to fund money to prevent a revolution as jobs and job losses reach unbearable heights
Wave two · 2028–2031: Robot labor and deflation
Now it gets interesting but also significantly better.
The feds will drop interest rates, hoping to spur companies to hire more humans, but why would they? Instead, they would hire AI agents and Optimus robots, cheaper and more productive.
Here’s the wild part: as robotics and AI proliferate, prices start dropping exponentially. The cost of transport goes down as cars are driven automatically by AI. Transport prices drop, and the cost of producing goods plummets.
And the best part is, we aren’t going to have a Terminator-type Skynet, a single AI company dominating us. Elon estimates that there are at least five to ten companies right now that will be thriving during this era, competing with each other and thus driving down prices for the rest of us.
Right now, there are already at least 10 AI companies competing for your attention. The cost of every AI service is collapsing. Ten competing AI companies will drive the price of intelligence toward zero. Deflation becomes the dominant economic force.
And here’s what that actually means in real terms. Peter’s actual quote around that fire: “A mountain of Optimus robots builds me a beautiful mansion for the cost of raw materials.”
UBI income that seems modest — $3–4K a month — is actually more than enough because everything costs a tenth of what it did. Your money doesn’t buy things. It buys choices.
This brings us from universal basic income to what Elon calls universal high income. Everyone starts living richly.
Wave three · 2031–2036: Post-scarcity abundance
Work becomes optional for the first time in human history. But doesn’t this work become optional? This is the era where, according to Peter, we escape longevity; we stop death itself.
This is called longevity escape velocity, and what it means is that human beings no longer have to die. You could practically live forever. Peter said the first group of humans who could live to a thousand may be alive today and could be in their 60s.
The year-by-year picture
2026: The collective shift from “AI is a tool” to “AI is the economy now.”
Big shift for this year: AI will be able to write software better than software engineers. What AI did for copywriters will now happen to software engineers, and this means anyone can now build software. This is why the market caps of software companies are collapsing rapidly. This is the year your kids stop believing credentials are a guarantee. This is the year the job market starts getting weird. This is the year you need to think differently about what matters.
2027: The line between “job” and “calling” dissolves.
Companies that embraced AI early see 10–50x productivity gains. Companies that didn’t? They’re hemorrhaging. The deflationary wave begins.
2028: At least 10 major developed nations implement Universal Basic Income.
Not out of charity. Out of necessity. The math demands it. Elon’s words: “The economy could be 10x larger within a decade if current trends persist and catastrophic disruptions are avoided. And I’m fairly comfortable with that forecast.”
2029–2030: Cost of living collapses in AI-driven sectors.
GDP per capita is up 3–5x in developed nations. With material needs met, humanity turns inward. Consciousness becomes the frontier.
2031–2032: When work becomes optional
This is the year humanity crosses a threshold it’s never crossed before.
Work is genuinely optional. Not because of welfare, but because AI handles execution, robots handle production, and Universal Income is enough because everything costs a tenth of what it did. Unemployment has been “solved” in the sense that it’s not a crisis anymore. It’s a feature.
The question shifts. Instead of “how do I get a job?” people ask “what do I actually want to do?”.
2033: Longevity escape velocity (when dying becomes optional)
And then something beautiful happens.
For the first time in history, medical science extends life faster than aging progresses.
By 2033, for every year that passes, therapies add more than a year to healthy lifespan: Longevity escapes velocity.
A 50-year-old alive today can reasonably expect to see 100+.
A 30-year-old? 150+.
People will literally be getting younger.
Anti-aging therapies that were experimental in 2025 are going mainstream. 60-year-olds will look like 40-year-olds.
If you have children, think about this: your kids could genuinely live for centuries.
Not metaphorically. Biologically. That’s not sci-fi. That’s engineering in progress.
Your work might span 100+ years. Your relationships with your children might span 150 years. That changes how you think about legacy.
The part nobody talks about: Prepare for abundance psychologically
Peter said something I haven’t been able to shake:
“The biggest crisis is not going to be ‘how do I keep up with AI?’The biggest crisis is going to be when all of my work is gone, and I have to figure out how to find meaning.”
And here’s something fascinating: Europeans will have an advantage in navigating this. Because Europeans don’t tie their identity to their jobs the way Americans do.
When the work disappears, and it will, Americans are going to need to completely rebuild their sense of self.
The question isn’t “how do I stay productive?” It’s “Who am I without productivity?”
Your operating system for the exponential decade: SOULPACT
This is a life operating system I built to navigate exponential change.
Not philosophy. A survival strategy.
Ask yourself these questions:
Soul — Do what lights you up. In a world of exponential AI, only authentic passion survives. Automation is coming for routine tasks. Your uniqueness becomes your moat. This is your permission slip to do the work only you can do.
Opportunity — Create space for exploration. The old playbook of “pick a career at 22 and ride it for 40 years” is dead. Stay nimble. Stay curious. Your ability to adapt and explore will determine your impact.
Unique Edge — Become undeniably you. AI is great at average. What it can’t do: tap into your lived experience, your perspective, your vision. The competitive advantage is in being so authentically yourself that your value becomes singular.
Love —Deepen your connections. Money becomes less relevant. Status becomes noise. What stays precious? The people you love. Your kids. Your partner. Your community. In abundance, relationships are everything.
Purpose — Align with something bigger than yourself. In an age of abundance, meaning becomes the real currency. The people who’ll thrive are solving real problems for real humans, not chasing metrics.
Abundance — Embrace it. Don’t apologize for it. The future will have unimaginable abundance. Position yourself before the exponential curve hits. Use abundance to build, create, and serve.
Calmness —Master your nervous system. The noise is going to get louder. Headlines will be insane. Your edge is internal regulation. Meditation. Breathwork. Time in nature. A calm mind navigates exponential change. A panicked mind makes terrible decisions.
Time — Reclaim ownership of your schedule. You’re not building for quarterly returns. You’re building for multi-generational impact. Say no to everything that doesn’t align with Soul, Love, and Purpose. Make time sacred.
I put all of these ideas above into a 60 mins speech I called SOULPACT.
You can listen to it on the YouTube video below:
Why I’m telling you this
Because someone needs to say it clearly.
The exponential decade isn’t coming. It’s here.
The only question is whether you’re going to navigate it consciously or get swept up in it.
You can either:
Stay in the linear economy — pretend the old rules still apply, optimize for credentials and job security, hope the robots take longer than expected.
Panic and prepare for collapse — assume the worst, hoard, protect what you have.
Or
Build consciously for the exponential future — position yourself for abundance, develop your irreplaceable gifts, deepen your relationships, and find your SOULPACT alignment.
The third option is the only one that leads somewhere good.
And this is why, this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (March 20-22), I’m bringing 5 top AI Experts together for AI SUMMIT, one of the most focused & interactive AI learning experiences for your future.
Three days. LIVE. 150,000 people are joining us from around the world.
We’re going to get you caught up with AI.
Not in theory.
On the actual method: the AI-First framework, which lets you ride this wave instead of getting swept away by it.
No recordings. No replays. This is the only window this year.
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The question I want to leave you with, the same one that keeps coming back to me when I think about the next generation:
“If work becomes optional, what would I actually want my life to be about?”
Sit with that for a minute.
Write down your answer.
Not the answer you think you should give. The real one.
That answer is your SOULPACT. That’s your north star for the next decade.
Everything else flows from there.
Stay grounded. Stay curious. And start asking yourself the real questions.
— Vishen
P.S. Leave a comment below, and let me know what you think about: The credential economy is collapsing in real time. The question isn’t whether that’s happening. The question is whether you’re building the thing that makes you irreplaceable, or waiting for a guarantee that’s already expired.
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How do people like us in our early 70’s, retired after years in education and healthcare. How do we not being in business, not being CEO’s embrace AI? What would we do with it what would be the end goal as we are not starting out young as your AI courses are designed for. I don’t want to be that old grandma that my children and grandchildren laugh at as as they sometimes do now saying ‘ you are so funny’ when I as how did you do that on a technology devise. I feel I have lost touch with much since I retired, spending a large amount of time caring for my mother now 94yrs. I feel I just need to understand and use technology and what the new AI can do for me and what I can do with it to positively enhance my life and those around me. I love my quiet time, gardening, my dogs, reading, which I have only just started reading for enjoyment instead of educational needs, (I get extremely little time for those) and of course spending time with my husband that we had so little of during our working years. Should I look towards more of those things now and not stress towards my lack of AI knowledge and impact that appears to be for the younger generations?
I love your optimism, but have strong doubts about your projections. Why would you trust anything that Elon says given his record of broken promises? Why would you believe that capitalism and control by billionaires would move to UBI?? I agree that would be wonderful but highly unlikely. Capitalism and Patriarchy have destroyed this planets resources and you make no comment about that. AI is written and controlled by the same people who have done this. Have you read the analysis by Ruha Benjamin who looks at what that means and how much we cant trust what AI might do. What planet are you living on? You say nothing about war and autocracy, arms race and nuclear weapons. AI wont help with that. What about the need AI has for electricity and water? It could turn out world into a desert. Would love to hear you reaction to this. Thanks. I usually love and forward your newsletters to friends but this one is so off the truth.
Absolutely! This is a pretty picture painted in order to continue deceiving humanity. It’s about more control. The super wealthy will have everything and continue to “not share”. There is more than enough for everyone, yet it is not distributed. I recall the statement during Covid and statements from the WEF – “you will have nothing and you will be happy”. Are the super rich willing to have nothing. AI has many, many dangers and the people creating know this! It’s just more about turning our eyes and souls away from who we really are. They already control us with social media and its algorithms and out of control capitalism, and the patriarchy is alive and well and gaining steam.
Common Vishen. I know that nce you were an Elon Musk fan boy but decent people no longer care when you drop his name, much less in Bold letters. From all reports He seems to have wanted to go to Epstein’s Island, He isn’t supporting his kids, He’s allegedly addicted to K, he torching his companies and and his predictions like no one will need money, going to mars, etc have been debunked. Get over it already. It was an interesting article but Elon is trash.
Vishen, there are a couple of things you didn’t mention, and I would love to know if they were just ignored or if you can talk about them.
#1. What about developing countries?
#2. What about our planet’s health? Are we going to live for centuries where? I am 46 years old; I want to be on the most beautiful planet in this galaxy for 50 more years. Are these 10 AI companies going to be respectful and ethical in taking care of the planet? I don’t really want to live for centuries if this awesome paradise has been destroyed.
Thank you.
I admire you.
Vishen: Please respond to these concerns in some clear way. This vision doesn’t address the dark/shadowy/negative parts of humanity, which continue to manifest. Respect to you.
Definitely, we’re living a revolution for humankind. My big question is: with a future so optimistic, what would happen with war and with differences between countries, races, and income levels? That’s the key to pursuing how to share this abundance with all humankind.
And that is precisely what we, as leaders of thinking and forecasting the future, need to share with the rest of our society.
Because it never minds what will happen if we are not prepared, all humanity, for the near future.
The summit is: how can we leverage and work together to find a better world for all of us?
Vishen, I really cannot believe you are so naive.
Frank Hebert already predicted what AI and robots will give us.
Jurassic Park revealed that nature will find a way for things to adapt regardless of what controls we think lock them out. Just because there are multiple companies competing on the AI front at the moment doesn’t mean that a company won’t monopolize things. Microsoft come to mind?
Do you really think that people will accept being on a handout for what the government feels is adequate compensation?
There are not enough resources for everyone to have a mansion and the people that do or will control them will not be handing them out on the cheap. I can’t see Jeff Bezos wanting to interface in the same level of affluence next to a redneck.
Where is all this energy to drive this technological revolution and economy going to come from?
Really…. I don’t consider my self that smart but I am not that stupid.
Seems like a new religion with a promise utopia again. Can you imagine people living forever? I watched an old black and white space movie as a child. They went to Mars of course and found a whole host of Martians that had found a way to live forever. These Martians had the astronauts destroy them. Lesson from the Martians……there is no life without death.
Anything that sounds too good to be true should be avoided.
I’ll have my popcorn ready to watch the show though. Problem is that a tough the plot may be unique, the outcome is predictable.
Cheers.
I unfortunately have to disagree with all of this. Having lived and seen the advent of computers, I can extrapolate on some of the things said there :
– wave one. IA will not get cheaper, it will become increasingly expensive as more and more people will be unable to live without it. There are computers everywhere yet the prices are more and more expensive. Phones too. Softwares too. IA will follow the same way.
Jobs will disappear, replaced by others. Today degrees will be useless and people will need to be on continuous training if they want to keep theirs. The others will live on welfare and, effectively, governments will have to pay for the unemployment thus add taxes which in turn will make companies to raise their prices instead of make their goods cheaper.
– wave two : costs will plummet but, due to taxes, companies will not price their goods cheaper. Only the people who are still “productive” will be able to pay for the goods and the IA, the others will stay on welfare. Governements will augment taxes to provide for the unemployed…
– wave three : People who have money will benefit from the logetivity programs. Not the others. At term, fertility, and population will decrease. Once death will be stopped only a few elite will stay and the society will be divided in 2 categories.
Creativity ? IA already makes music, arts, crafts, films, books…
I, for my part, don’t think IA will bring us any good.
I am currently unemployed after marriage breakup, and cancer. I can’t do what I wanted to do before cancer. Three years later I am still struggling with the question ‘What is it that I want to do? What would I do gladly and thankfully if money wasn’t an issue?’ I still haven’t got an answer to this. Meanwhile I see many people, who don’t have to fight for their existence any more, struggle with the same problem: meaning. Finding a meaning and purpose will become one of the most important questions of our lives.
Please explain why you are happy to work with Elon Musk who was interacting socially and emailing with Jeffrey Epstein who, at the time, had been convicted of recruiting, persuading, or arranging for children to engage in sexual acts with him in exchange for money. Does Elon Musks extremely bad judgment in continuing to interact with a convicted child predator not give you pause. Does this not make you sick?
As a MindValley member I appreciate the teachings you provide. I love the idea of the future that you are describing, when we move into a soul focused way of living but my concern is how f’d up things are right now, (especially in the US) a world driven by greed and power, creating destruction without concern for humanity or the environment. I’ve always struggled playing the corporate game of following the rules and chasing the money. If I can survive through the chaos to come, I will joyfully accept and even thrive in this new world.
Well… While all this tech language is not my main one (there are things that I still do not understand), thinking about “human inmortality” drives my mind to the absolute need of population control, job control, etc. The world will be totally different to what we know now. It kind of reminds me the science fiction books where a whole lot of things are implemented to control population and access to resources. Why population? Because we live in a finite planet with finite resources, while it is an open system for energy, -thanks, beautiful Sun-, it is a closed system for matter, with close to zero exchange, sooooo… Another question is, will it be a more “democratic” world? I mean, will people in african countries will have the same access to all that abundance as people in Europe? Because today, while there is enough food for everyone, a large amount of people in the world are under-fed and another significan amount are obese.
As someone who has access to a bucket load of information I ask “Do you know if Elon Musk supported Ebstein in any way to do the unspeakable things that he did to children? Money, information, influence? Is that man without blame; fully and completely- if not please stop immediately working with him as your kind and loving followers are not going to continue to follow you if Elon is involved.
I ask you “will you be able to be proud of your associations with Musk in the future?
Ha! If you think that costs are going to drop and everyone is going to be able to afford everything, you sadly underestimate the nature of greed in the men who hold the power. Look around you. How has it been working so far?
It brings up more questions than answers yet.
One is: As of today, Earth’s natural resources/raw materials are mostly limited or becoming depleted. Will AI allow us to provide enough to sustain a population, that does not die any longer, that needs to keep entertained if work becomes obsolete, and that might eventually have the means and the envy to live the excessive life unlimited money can provide?
What an insightful read Vishen. Thank You so much for enlightening us about our future. And yes even through this digital age, it will be the Soul Led Thinkers and Feelers who will be on top of things
Thank you for sharing valuable information. I am so glad I am a member of MindValley. I’ve learned so much. Thank you! I’ve been through a lot as a refugee child residing in the US…there were constant wars in my country. I hardly ever spend time with my parents, especially my father. He was constantly at the frontline fighting, to keep us safe. It was in the US that I finally get to spend time with my parents and siblings. But then, came the struggles for my parents to make ends meet in a totally new world. A world where everything is at your fingertips and not like home, where we have no electricity, no running water…but we made it. Therefore, whatever is ahead, we will once again, learn to accept, adapt and grow…Thank you!
VISHan – yu still hve not met YUYAY – Soupact may even be a derivtive of YUYAY but I do not know. The observatios in your concept of the future does not include YUYAY and how it is going to have an effect on the future.
YUYAY is still the arget secret n the planet. I do not know why . Perhaps you can explain why the next level of AI actually saves energy. This shoud not be a secret. But YUYAY saves energy and wter. go figure. Why do you not knnow about it yet?
if you are looking for purpose you might look to th Prime directive – all receiving is for the purpose of sharing – not for ones self alone. and when you get around to it you might want to rflect on the Purpose of UNDRIP and its importance. Imagine all the teachers needed to teach UNDRIP and how are we going to do that ? Is YUYAY going to be enough – I believe not. Undrip is not on any ones radar – nor the Prime directive – thee two consdtructs can employ manymilions of people and how will w e pay them? with the elctricisy savings generated by data centers. the future if bright and we need to have the right sunglasses on. Mitchlel Gold YUYAY founder.
I appreciate your posting these thoughts about how the future will look as AI and other workforce changes shape a new world. However I am struck that there is not one reference to the expected impact of the climate crisis, or how responding the rising temperature (which is accelerating now to reach 2 degrees rise in the 2030s or 2040s, and possibly 3 – 5 C rise by 2100. 2 C rise will wipe out huge parts of biodiversity in our world and could condemn billions of people to death, heat deaths, deaths by famine, deaths in floods, etc. A 3 C rise is unlivable and it should be a very high priority for the world we are part of now to be transitioning to renewables as fast as we can. Instead we are still using just as much oil and gas as we ever have, with data centres multiplying, using a lot of energy, and water, possibly doubling demand. There is political and corporate obstruction to this fast transition we need; how do we overcome this? Also, war. No mention of it but in a world where we are overshooting our resources (fish running out, trees declining, bees in crisis, to name a few) conflict will greatly increase. We are losing the norms of international law and war crimes. with wars of aggression & genocide taking place right before our eyes, and we are lacking effective means to stop them. The UN has been weakened by actions outside international law, are we in a world where might make right and the wealthy rule? or is there still a chance for democracy and stability, for care for all? UBI would be amazing but overall if we are making it impossible to grow food and to live within our biological means in large parts ot he world, what will the future look like? I hope we can find new ways to collaborate, and innovations that help us to grow food even where there is soil depletion and where it may in fact be too hot to cultivate food – but these are big problems I see nowhere in the predictions. Also there is an increasing threat of nuclear war, as indicated in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock now to 85 seconds (1 minute, 25 seconds) to midnight. This represents the closest the clock has ever been to the symbolic “apocalypse,” moving forward from 90 seconds in 2025 due to escalating nuclear, climate, and AI risks, signaling a profound failure of global leadership. How can we establish global leadership that can counter and reduce that threat?
Hi Vishen,
I needed to hear (/see) this. It’s a version of the future I would love to experience.
From my point of view it aligns with the notion of limitless potential, possibilities, energy abundance for all and everything in endless combinations or with the perspective what Allan Watts, Carl Sagan, Brian Cox ( I think in that order:) said that we have the means by which the universe understands and explores itself – well, why not embrace this one, right?
Yet on the other hand we have a nervous system (billons of years old), a “programming” or parenting levels that lead to the saying “hurt people hurt”, what’s already complex in itself and combined with the actual challenges – mentioned by Cindy and Cara above – it is quite explosive.
My question in this context would be: how do we overcome chasing and resisting (and not the Resistance Steven Pressfield is speaking about) but resistance to change, introspect, transform, accept, let go etc. and my mind goes here to the Kochs (I read something about them this days) and others alike of this world (from the category “with great power comes great responsibility”)?
P.S. maybe we can talk about this next month at FOMO when you will be in Bucharest, that would be my question there.
There is so much to put right in the world today that needs compassion, understanding and commitment from those who can to help those who can’t, possibly won’t.
AI is a revolutionary move but how does it work when there is so much division, so much inequality in the world. A world where people haven’t access to the basics of life.
Moving towards our purpose is a beautiful thought but these are individual. We need to be united first in a system of fairness. That hasn’t been achieved anyway or in any time of history.
Where is nature in all of this? Where is honesty and the betterment of mankind.
This sounds good if you are ambitious, educated, a critical thinker but what happens to those who with limited capacity and who don’t aspire to much more than having a good time when they receive their universal paycheck.
What you are suggesting is that man be given total autonomy in a naive belief that this alone will be enough.
Has man-made governments the ability to create this new world? I don’t think so.