The 100 Year Life

You believe we are in the midst of an “extraordinary transition” that will culminate in a social and economic revolution. Please describe it.

There are some enormously important trends happening in the world right now, but the ones I focus on in my work are the impact of technology and social and demographic trends. Take, for example, the evolution of the family unit, where the changing roles of men and women are rewriting some of the fundamental rules of how we live our lives and, indeed, how we work.

What is a ‘multi-staged life’—and what will it mean to make the most of one?

One of the old rules of the game was the idea of a three-stage life, which involved full-time education, full-time work and then full-time retirement. But if the assumption is that many people will live to be 100, they