School still trains people to memorize and execute. The world, meanwhile, demands the ability to understand, connect and think.
While some spend an hour struggling through an essay, others get a perfect answer in 4 seconds thanks to artificial intelligence. This gap exposes a deep flaw in our education system.
AI, education, critical thinking, the future of work… what if we’ve spent the last 50 years preparing our children for a world that no longer exists?
We long believed technology would always get faster, more powerful, and cheaper. That era is over.
Techflation is rewriting the rules of the game, quietly, while most leaders look the other way.
In this third and final part of our series, we move beyond causes and symptoms. We talk about what’s really coming: a two-speed AI that will deepen global inequality, a painful reindustrialisation whose bill we will all end up paying, and a historic bifurcation from which no one will emerge unscathed.
The question is no longer whether the shock is coming. It’s about what you do now that you know it is.
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The myth of ever-cheaper technology is collapsing.
And this time, it’s not a passing crisis.
Rising component prices, the disappearance of mid-range devices, cloud providers passing their costs onto businesses… Techflation is no longer an economist’s hypothesis: it’s showing up in your IT budgets and your wallet.
What this article breaks down:
– Why smartphones under $300 are simply going to disappear
– How financial markets are still ignoring the true depth of this crisis
– What strategies companies and governments are starting to adopt to reclaim control over their digital sovereignty
Between the Androidcalypse reshaping the mobile market, the extreme fragility of semiconductor supply chains, and the rise of new alternatives (RISC-V, open source AI), the digital world as we know it is undergoing a profound transformation.
The question is no longer whether things will change. It’s already happening.
What if the promise of ever-cheaper digital technology were coming to an end?
Component shortages, dependence on scarce resources, surging energy consumption from data centers… the signals are piling up, revealing a deep transformation of the digital economy.
This phenomenon goes beyond rising costs. It marks a turning point: technology is becoming a strategic resource, constrained and contested. A shift that is already forcing us to rethink our technological and industrial models.
Welcome to the era of techflation.
🤖 What if artificial intelligence was actually surpassing us, for real?
AGI, multimodality, technological arms race… What still sounded like science fiction 5 years ago is now on researchers’ desks. And the deadlines are closing in faster than anyone expected.
In this article, I explore the big questions reshaping our relationship with AI:
→ Why are AGI predictions accelerating so fast?
→ What are the real challenges: alignment, inequality, geopolitics?
→ And above all: what role can Europe still play in this revolution?
We can no longer afford to wait before we understand.
