Is progress behind us, or is ‘plenty’ still possible?
About this episode
The episode discusses the uneven progress of humanity over the past century and explores the potential for future prosperity in an AI-driven world.
Over the past 100 years, humanity has made stunning advances: longer lives, higher incomes, and billions of people lifted out of poverty. Much of that progress remains uneven and incomplete, however. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast , we share an adapted conversation from the McKinsey Global Institute’s (MGI) podcast A Century of Plenty , which draws on insights from the institute’s recent book of the same name. The book’s coauthors, McKinsey’s Chris Bradley , Marc Canal , Nick Leung , and Sven Smit, explore whether a new era of broad-based prosperity will extend into the next century. After, McKinsey Editorial Director Roberta Fusaro is joined by coauthor Sven Smit, senior partner emeritus, to discuss where the next big ideas will come from and how leaders should think about knowledge and judgment in an AI-driven world. For more insights from the book and to hear more from its authors, tune into MGI’s new podcast series A Century of Plenty on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. The McKinsey Podcast is cohosted by Lucia Rahilly and Roberta Fusaro. Any unanswered questions about this episode? Send them our way…
Topics covered
- human progress
- prosperity
- AI-driven world
- economic insights
- future leadership
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