The World Still Has Work. But Where Are The People?

In my recent post, Too Few Hands, I wrote about a world still rich with purpose—but starved for the people to carry it. Hospitals with beds but no nurses. Orchards with fruit but no ladders unfolded. Classrooms full of hope, yet always one step behind a shifting future.

This video takes those moments off the page and puts them in motion. You’ll see the quiet rooms, the empty fields, the lone figures still showing up when the weight is heavier than it should ever be. It’s the story of work undone—not for lack of will, but for lack of fit—and what it feels like when the cracks in our systems become canyons.

The Changing Human Life Cycle

Given the recent focus on demographics, I went back to review a book in my library titled “The Great Demographic Reversal.” In a post that reviewed the book, I mentioned that the authors state several times that their findings are controversial and counter to the views of mainstream economists. By way of review, the authors concluded that the future is one of:

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Robots Are Constructing a Dam in Japan. Are Buildings Next?

Here is a scenario I expect to see play out increasingly over time:

To address Japan’s rapidly aging workforce and labor shortage, contractor Obayashi Corporation has turned to automation by constructing a dam almost entirely with robots

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