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Davos and the civilisational OS: Intelligence becomes a commodity. Biology becomes programmable.

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Felix Ghauri

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Davos and the Civilisational OS

Davos and the civilisational OS.

If you want one good Sunday read, make it this. Azeem Azhar has the best post-Davos frame I’ve seen.

We are leaving the industrial age constraints that defined the last 200 years.

Intelligence becomes a commodity. Biology becomes programmable. Energy becomes more buildable than findable.

This doesn’t just change ‘the economy’. It rewrites the operating system of civilisation.

The friction, as Azeem points out, is that our institutions (the ‘hardware’ of society) were built for the old OS. They operate on linear timelines, clear borders, and resource scarcity.

The new OS is exponential, borderless, and abundant.

The gap between these two realities is where all the turbulence is coming from.

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Felix Ghauri

Applied AI Practitioner · Founder, Futures Forum

Felix helps organisations navigate AI and exponential change. He writes about technology, geopolitics, and the future of work.

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