The original call
Original year: 2025
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Hit
Hit, and frankly it feels less like a prediction now and more like a description of daily reality. Continuous reskilling has gone from a futurist’s talking point to a survival requirement. Every serious organization now talks about a culture of constant learning, and every individual who has thrived through the AI transition got there by treating learning as the job itself rather than something you finish at graduation. This is the destination the whole twenty-year arc was always pointing toward.