Science, Technology and God have been playing hide-and-seek since Leonardo Da Vinci (seen by many as the first scientist) started slicing up dead people in the search for answers of mysteries and secrets.

Berlin. There I was, at 6 a.m., running alongside the beautiful river of Spree with my friend from politics – the only time slot made available for me to meet up in his packed schedule.

2022 – six years into the future, what should we expect?  It will be somewhat of a milestone, as it is 350 years since one of the greatest geniuses that ever lived passed away, at age 44,

In order to understand what tomorrow will bring, we must study what has already come to pass and use the knowledge gleaned from history’s greatest thinkers to identify our current “blind spots” that those before us have already observed.

Forget “Innovation” – Forge Your Future with Avant-Garde

Forget “Innovation” – Forge Your Future with Avant-Garde

In 1439, Johannes Gensfleisch (better known as Gutenberg) created what might be the most revolutionary invention in history: the printing press. His press shifted the paradigm of communication, because people started to publish books, essays, and other written material more cheaply and in greater numbers than ever before. Through print, they shared their inspiring, sometimes crazy ideas and advancements over the following centuries, which eventually led to the technological revolutions of our time.

– Google figured it out, they are disrupting their own core business and they understand that the “era of search” as we used to know it, is coming to an end, and, that they are vulnerable for “disruption”. They have successfully been dividing their business and industries into various fields for some time now (Calico, Nest Labs, Google X, Google Fiber and numerous others through Google Capital and Google Ventures) and they continue to invest and do so and have moved from their ABC to “ALPHABET”.

We are reaching a tipping-point and moving with rapid pace toward technological singularity. According to futurist, Ray Kurzweil, we are only some twenty years away, and I personally am a strong believer of just this; there are many reasons and arguments supporting this theory.

We are again underestimating two core things that have always occurred throughout history: a) the law of acceleration and b) the skills and knowledge / opportunities of the next generation. As the cycles of history have repeated themselves time and time again, these two Inspired at the Pratharna Bhoomic (prayer ground), I sat down with a school class of 60 young children from Mumbai. It was amazing how, despite their age, I listened and learned and I became the student and they became the teacher.

In my childhood, I was captivated by the awe-inspiring phenomena of “Saltstraumen” and “Moskstraumen,” powerful vortexes near my mother's birthplace on the island of Værøy, in the Lofoten archipelago. These natural wonders, which I witnessed firsthand, have fueled the imaginations of artists and authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Moers, and Jules Verne. In contemporary culture, echoes of such maelstroms resonate in the epic battles of Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean III."

Recently, I had the privilege of addressing 350 leading women in European business, a gathering that was as humbling as it was honorific. The assembly of such esteemed business leaders provided a unique vantage point from which to explore the future of leadership and the current business challenges.

The event was a hotbed of vibrant, open discussions, largely propelled by the diverse voices of women from various sectors. What struck me in these conversations was their intensity, often surpassing what I've observed at male-dominated summits. Many women shared their experiences of having to outperform their male counterparts to gain equal recognition and benefits. This sentiment echoes the words of Madeline Albright, who famously said, "There seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard."