Kevin Benedict

The Latest in Automobile Manufacturing with TCS Expert Naresh Mehta
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January 16, 2026

The automotive industry is undergoing one of the deepest transformations in its history, and this episode of FOBtv breaks down what’s actually happening behind the headlines. I'm joined by Naresh Mehta, Global Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at TCS, to examine how factories, supply chain

The Future of Automobile Manufacturing with Expert Michael Diettrick
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January 15, 2026

In this episode of the FOBtv podcast, we pull back the curtains on one of the most profound transformations underway in manufacturing: the reinvention of automotive manufacturing in an age defined by AI, automation, and software-defined mobility. I'm able to connect with automobile manufacturing exp

The Future & the Fabric of Human Intelligence
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January 13, 2026

Leadership failures during periods of rapid change are often explained in comforting terms. We are told organizations suffer from talent shortages, skills gaps, cultural resistance, or communication breakdowns. These explanations are reassuring because they suggest fixable defects—new incentives, new hires, better messaging. History tells a harsher story.

Human Viability Under Acceleration, #19
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January 13, 2026

Modern societies rarely collapse because they lack intelligence, technology, or innovation. They collapse because the rate of change exceeds the capacity of humans to remain functional inside the systems they create. This condition—human viability under acceleration—is now the defining constrain

The Fabric of Human Intelligence, #18
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January 13, 2026

Click to EnlargeLeadership failures during periods of rapid change are often explained in comforting terms. We are told organizations suffer from talent shortages, skills gaps, cultural resistance, or communication breakdowns. These explanations are reassuring because they suggest fixable defects—

How Intelligence Is Rebuilding the Automotive Industry with TCS Expert Laksh Parthasarathy
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January 09, 2026

In this episode of FOBtv, my guest is Laksh Parthasarathy (PLN), Global Head of Smart Mobility and Automotive Manufacturing at TCS.  We explore how AI and analytics are rewriting the DNA of the automotive industry. Together, we trace the shift from slow, mechanical evolution to a new era where

The Automobile Factory of 2035 with TCS's Subhash Sakorikar
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January 08, 2026

In this episode of FOBtv, host Kevin Benedict sits down with Subhash Sakorikar, Global Head of Industry Excellence at TCS, to unpack the forces reshaping how cars will be designed, built, powered, and connected. Together they explore the rise of smart factories, the real impact of digital twins, the

The 7 Laws of Humanity the Future Cannot Break, #17
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January 06, 2026

Click to EnlargeEvery generation believes its moment is different. New technologies and tools arrive. Old rules appear obsolete. Leaders look at the speed of change around them and quietly conclude that history is no longer relevant.They are wrong, again.What changes from era to era is not human nat

The Laws of Humanity the Future Cannot Break
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January 06, 2026

Every generation believes its moment is different. New technologies and tools arrive. Old rules appear obsolete. Leaders look at the speed of change around them and quietly conclude that history is no longer relevant.

Speed Beyond Humans, #16
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December 17, 2025

In April 1860, the Pony Express thundered out of St. Joseph, Missouri, with eighty riders, 400 horses, and 190 relay stations stretching nearly 2,000 miles to Sacramento. Stations were placed every 10–15 miles—the distance a horse could run before exhaustion. Riders, mostly wiry teenagers, leapt

Helping Today's Youth Use Foresight with Expert Aino Piispanen
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December 17, 2025

To gain a deeper understanding of the future, begin with the people who will inherit it. In this episode of FOBtv, futurist Kevin Benedict sits down with Aino Piispanen—one of Finland’s leading voices on youth futures at the Hopeful Future project—to confront a stunning reality: young people??

Transformational Energy Units: The Fuel of Change, #15
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December 08, 2025

In 1812 Napoleon marched into Russia with six hundred thousand men, the largest army Europe had ever seen. His goal was continental dominance. But dreams do not feed soldiers or warm them through a Russian winter

Vices and Virtues that Impact Foresight, #14
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December 01, 2025

Click to EnlargeHow many of us have tried to convince another about the merits of an argument using data, facts, science, evidence and logic, only to make no progress at all.  The biases and lenses we all use to filter information changes our reality and view of the future as the following exam

Practicing & Navigating the Future, #13
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November 25, 2025

Imagine being assigned to repair a complex machine without proper instructions. You know it should function, but you’re not sure whether the leftover screws, washers and roll of red wire are optional or the reason it doesn’t turn on. That’s what leading without foresight feels like.Frank Diana

The Great Energy Rethink with Expert David Carlin
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November 19, 2025

In this episode of FOBtv, we tackle one of the most urgent questions of our time: Can the world grow richer without cooking the planet? Our guest, David Carlin, argues that we’re framing the climate challenge all wrong. The real goal isn’t to use less energy—it’s to use cleaner energy, and t

Loops, Truth, and Tempo: The Strategic Genius of John Boyd, #12
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November 17, 2025

John Boyd never got queasy on a carnival ride. He loved loops. He flew them, he studied them, and eventually he turned them into one of the most powerful strategic tools of the modern age. In the cockpit, loops were his edge—rolling, climbing, and diving until he was behind his opponent in forty s

Hype, Value and Future of AI with Gartner Expert Deepak Seth
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November 17, 2025

In this high-energy episode of FOBtv, TCS futurist Kevin Benedict sits down with Deepak Seth, Gartner Director Analyst and leading expert in Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence, for a rare inside look at how AI is truly reshaping the enterprise. This isn’t another hype-driven discussion.

Rome, OODA & the Importance of Loops, #11
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November 11, 2025

Everything alive runs on loops. It’s how energy moves, how information travels, and how systems learn. A loop is a circle that keeps returning, adjusting, and refining. When loops are healthy, life expands. When they break, decay begins.Leaders who understand loops stop thinking of organizations a

Investing in Sustainability with Banking Americas' Marie Clara Buelligen
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November 06, 2025

In this podcast episode, Marie Clara Buelligen, Head of Sustainable Investment Banking Americas at Societe Generale, shares a candid and strategic perspective on the future of sustainability in business. With deep insights into the intersection of finance, technology, and environmental responsibility, Buelligen explores how emerging tools like AI, digital twins, simulations, and modeling are reshaping long-term sustainability planning and climate risk management.

Tempo: The Operating System of Success, #10
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November 05, 2025

The different time dimensions of human time, digital time, and future time will impact us all, and when those different dimensions line up into a rhythm its a beautiful thing. It’s the operating system of the polyintelligent advantage.You see it clearly in retail. A brick-and-mortar store runs on

When Scale Changes Everything, #9
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November 04, 2025

Why talk about scale in a series on leadership and polyintelligence? Because scale is where small decisions stop being small. It’s where a clever idea, a promising experiment, or a niche technology suddenly impacts millions of lives. Scale is the moment the grid becomes a launchpad, not just a net

The Future & Seventh Generation Principles, #8
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October 31, 2025

Most business leaders are required to think in quarters. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy (made up of indigenous Americans) thought in centuries. Their Seventh Generation Principle asked leaders to make decisions as if seven generations of descendants were in the room. That’s 140–180 years of respo

Investors and Investing in Authentic Sustainability with Expert Eric Weitzman
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October 28, 2025

Investors today are demanding more than promises—they want data. In this episode of FOBtv, I speak with Eric Weitzman of FactSet about how investors are scrutinizing companies’ authentic sustainability commitments, and how technologies like AI, digital twins, and advanced analytics are reshaping

John Boyd & The Art of Adaptation, #7
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October 28, 2025

Change is hard.  Managing in an uncertain world is hard, and winning in this environment is even harder. All of these things make it very difficult to keep your head in the game and to be competitive.  John Boyd was an officer, military pilot, and a military strategist that dedicated m

Myths, Mechanisms, and the Grid, #6
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October 20, 2025

The lone frontiersman. Rifle over one shoulder, axe in hand, squinting at the horizon with bacon fat in his pack and destiny and dust in his eyes. His boots? Homemade. His mule? Raised from birth. His clothes? Woven by candlelight, stitched with sinew, cinched by a belt carved from last winter’s e

The Art and Science of Managing Supply Chain Risk
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November 15, 2018

In this interview, supply chain risk and sustainability expert and SAP Ariba Global Vice President, Padmini Ranganathan, shares her knowledge, insights and experiences with us. She updates us on the latest trends in SCM and shares where the industry is heading.

The Latest in Automobile Manufacturing with TCS Expert Naresh Mehta | Ep. 146
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January 16, 2026

The Future of Automobile Manufacturing with Expert Michael Diettrick | Ep. 145
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January 14, 2026

Beyond Automation: How Intelligence Is Rebuilding the Automotive Industry | Ep. 144
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January 09, 2026

The Factory of 2035: AI, Robots, Digital Twins & Data Are Rewriting Auto Manufacturing | Ep. 143
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January 07, 2026

The Nordic North with Futurist Hanna Lakkala
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December 29, 2025

What happens when the most remote region on Earth becomes one of the most strategically important? In this compelling episode of FOBtv futurist and host Kevin Benedict sits down with Nordic North Futurist Hanna Lakkala to explore the rapidly changing reality of the arctic region. From vanishing seasonal rhythms in Lapland to the surge in Arctic tourism, from Finland’s deep sauna culture to the geopolitics of fighter jets, rare earth minerals, icebreakers, NATO expansion, and Greenland’s sudden strategic spotlight, this conversation reveals how climate change, great-power competition, and human resilience are colliding at the top of the world.

The Nordic North with Futurist Hanna Lakkala | Ep. 142
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December 24, 2025

How Finland is Helping Youth Use Foresight with Expert Aino Piispanen | Ep. 141
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December 17, 2025

The Great Energy Rethink with Expert David Carlin | Ep. 140
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November 19, 2025

Hype, Value and Future of AI with Gartner Expert Deepak Seth | Ep. 139
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November 17, 2025

TCS Expert Kiran Gupta Shares His Perspective on A Sustainable Future
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November 07, 2025

Investing in Sustainability with Expert Marie-Clara Buelligen | Part7 | Ep. 138
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November 06, 2025

TCS Expert Kiran Gupta discusses how business and sustainability aren't separate
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November 06, 2025

Investing in Sustainability with Expert Marie-Clara Buelligen | Part7 | Ep. 136
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November 06, 2025

TCS Expert Kiran Gupta shares how technology can improve the standards of life with sustainability
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November 05, 2025

Investing in Sustainability with Banking Americas' Marie Clara Buelligen
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November 05, 2025

In this podcast episode, Marie Clara Buelligen, Head of Sustainable Investment Banking Americas at Societe Generale, shares a candid and strategic perspective on the future of sustainability in business. With deep insights into the intersection of finance, technology, and environmental responsibility, Buelligen explores how emerging tools like AI, digital twins, simulations, and modeling are reshaping long-term sustainability planning and climate risk management.

TCS Futurist David Kish Discusses the Collective Issue of Sustainability
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November 04, 2025

TCS Futurist David Kish Discusses the Advantages of AI paired with Sustainability
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November 03, 2025

TCS Futurist David Kish Shares His Journey Into a Sustainability Focused Career
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October 31, 2025

Leading Through Complexity with Sustainability Expert Alison Wise | Part 6 | Ep. 137
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October 30, 2025

Investors and Investing in Authentic Sustainability with Expert Eric Weitzman | Part 5 | Ep. 136
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October 28, 2025

How the Past Informs the Future with Archeologist and Futurist Janna Jokela | Ep. 135
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October 15, 2025

Circular Economies, Regenerative Processes, and Biomimicry with Haley Price | Part 4 | Ep. 134
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October 10, 2025

Profitable and Sustainable Futures with Expert Jayasree Kottapalli | Part 3 | Ep. 133
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October 07, 2025

The Responsible Revolution with TCS Expert Kiran Gupta | Part 2 | Ep. 132
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October 03, 2025

The Future of Sustainability with TCS Futurist David Kish | Part 1 | Ep. 131
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September 30, 2025

Fewer young workers, pandemic-motivated early retirements, inspired searches for a better quality of life, and higher paying available jobs are all motivating businesses in the service industry to accelerate automation.

A Purposeful Future is Not Inevitable
Thinkers360
May 07, 2021

The future is not unexpected. Yesterday’s future arrived today. It’s an inevitable pattern. I have been reading a lot about inevitability lately. Last week I listened to Bill Gates and Rashida Jones on the Ask Big Questions podcast. In this podcast Bill Gates shared that we have already damaged the earth and the negative consequences are inevitable.

In my work over the past few months, I have written a series of articles under the title of The Future of Information, Truth and Influence. Many of the articles address the negative and unanticipated consequences of social media on our society. Many authors of the research I have been studying seem to have a fatalistic view. We have let the genie out of the bottle and there is no going back. It’s evitable.

And again today, I came across an article about automation, artificial intelligence and the jobs of the future. The author predicted that our economic system would drive us to compete on automation, and that we will automate away many of the jobs that employ us today. It’s inevitable. The answer according to the author is to tax the use of automation and robots, and then share the proceeds with us humans via monthly payments. I wouldn’t mind having automated robots generating a paycheck for me each month. Bring it on!

The weaponization of robots for the military is also a big societal issue today. Although many experts have been warning humanity not to create killer robots that can be unleashed against humans, many military strategists have already given up the fight and believe it’s inevitable.

The pandemic, I believe, has also invited us to feel fatalistic. Our dependence on globalization, international travel and interconnectedness guarantee we will experience these horrific global pandemics repeatably. It’s inevitable.

Some believe social issues like inequality, injustice, racism, income inequality, wealth gaps, etc., are also inevitable. But I believe it’s possible to have a more purposeful vision to believe in and embrace. We need positive social constructs that enable us to believe that the world can be a better place. If you are not familiar with the term social construct, I am using the definition – a collective belief placed on an object or event by a society. Often, members don’t even realize a social construct exists. They have just always accepted it to be true. For example, growing up in my family’s religious tradition, members believed woman could not be preachers. Today, however, many gifted and inspired woman are preachers. The belief that a woman couldn’t preach was not a reality, it was simply a social construct without merit, validity or value.

Social constructs need to be identified, analyzed, understood and re-evaluated constantly for merit and purpose. Does a particular social construct offer value for us now and/or in the future.

One social construct most of us embrace is the notion of the “rule of law.” We want to be governed by the “rule of law” not by the whims of some power-hungry despot. If we want to change things in a democracy, then we the people change the laws that govern us. This is not a social construct that every culture and society has adopted. Scribbling the words “rule of law” on a piece of paper does not in and of itself provide us value, but the collective belief that following the “rule of law” helps support a more perfect union offers enormous value for us.

Here are some additional and very powerful social constructs that our society has found useful to believe in - human rights, morality, democracy, capitalism, the value of a constitution, liberty, importance and value of an educated population, the notion of property and property rights, the notion of territories and borders, science and the scientific method, medicine and public health, logic, etc.

None of the social and mental constructs listed above are visible. The elk grazing in the meadow above me can’t see a social construct. They are collective beliefs, notions, concepts that add value and order to us humans. They are not inevitable. We have to purposely develop them in order to form a more perfect union.

With the right social constructs, we can stop social media from manipulating the minds of the vulnerable. AI powered robots don’t have to be weaponized. Injustices don’t have to be acceptable. Truth can be honored, the rule of law respected, science can heal, conspiracy theories rejected, and education can improve us. We are responsible for our own social constructs. We need to purposefully create and embrace social constructs that help us form a more perfect union and the future we want tomorrow.

Truth, Science and Reasoning in a Pandemic Age
Thinkers360
May 08, 2020

I have the good fortune to meet with and interview many distinguished business and technology leaders in the normal course of my work. One of the most common subjects of discussion in 2019 was the increasing importance of data and data analytics. Everyone needs data and an understanding of what it means to operate today. Data is captured and analyzed to determine facts, and the facts are weighed and measured to derive the truth. Without data, facts can’t be supported, truth can’t be determined and effective reasoning cannot be applied. Leonardo Da Vinci was the first to see clearly that knowledge of science would have to come from repeated experiments done, not unproven ideas. He was also the first scientist that correlated mathematics and science. Most people recognize the role of truth in reasoning. Reasoning without truth is like programming without logic. It doesn’t work. Computers run on logic as does nearly the entire world as a result of digital transformation. Truth and logic allow others to replicate your processes by following the logic, testing it, and debugging any issues. That is why it is so critical, in an advanced digital society, to respect and honor the value and utility of truth and logic. Without truth scientific breakthroughs and processes can’t be delivered, digital systems and economies can’t operate, and governments cannot sustain the trust and cooperation of their citizens. If a person rejects data, denigrate facts and devalues truths, then their ability to use logic and reasoning to make good decisions is severely limited. In the absence of reasoning, superstitions, bias, false narratives and prejudices find room to grow. Galileo was one of the first modern thinkers to clearly state that the laws of nature are mathematical. When I ask business leaders to identify emerging technologies they feel will have the biggest impact on their business in the near future they most often list technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, automation, robotics, personalization, etc. All of these emerging technologies and their potential value to society are fully dependent on data, data analytics, determining facts and the revealed truth, and then using it within logic systems to build cool things like autonomous self-driving cars! Given the absolute centrality of data, facts, truth and logic to our current and future quality of life and common good, it would seem we could all agree on their value and utility, but

Pre-Pandemic Assumptions and Presumptions in Decision-Making
Thinkers360
April 07, 2020

Over the last 3 years my wife and I have become avid backpackers with many adventures under our belt. One of the biggest surprises I learned during my time in the wilderness was how often I make wrong assumptions. It was mid-July and the lake we were backpacking to was still frozen over and the trail was covered in deep snow. I had assumed warm mid-July weather would have cleared the trails. Another time after fishing in a high mountain lake, I looked at the map and saw the trail passed directly above our location. After over an hour looking for the trail we realized it didn't exist. My assumptions that maps are updated regularly and accurately reflect the reality on the ground were wrong. I can't tell you how many times I have learned that the obvious shortcut doesn't save you time. We all make assumptions. We assume something is true or certain to happen, without proof. We also make presumptions. We presume ideas are true, and then use them as the basis for other ideas until we have built ourselves a house of cards that is one fact away from collapsing. As we ponder our changed mid-pandemic world from our home offices with our dogs and kids under our desk, it is a good time to reflect on the assumptions and presumptions that got us into this predicament. I think we presumed the biggest dangers in flying were potential terrorist attacks or equipment failure. I think we assumed our doctors had the answers to whatever illness we picked up. I think we presumed that since all companies seemed to be developing long and lean supply chains that they must be resilient, redundant and reliable. I think we presumed that an illness in China was a Chinese problem. I think we assumed that the local hospital could just order and quickly receive any supplies or equipment they needed. I think we assumed that our economy would always be there in the morning. I think we assumed toilet paper would always be available. I think we assumed our leaders had a plan. As our anxiety evolves into acceptance of our mid-pandemic situation, perhaps it is a good time to re-evaluate the assumptions and presumptions we all have about the world around us. What I have learned in this past month is we have far less control over our world and destiny than might have been presumed.

Flattening the Curve of a Risky Future
Thinkers360
April 06, 2020

Today, in the midst of round one of the COVID-19 pandemic, I received an email from Delta Airlines sharing their efforts to make travel safe and normal. What will normal be post-pandemic? Will society be comfortable going right back to flying all over the world again? The thought of spending time in crowded airports, attending conferences with tens of thousands of people in one room, sitting in tightly packed business meetings and sitting elbow to elbow with coughing strangers on planes fills me with anxiety. I don't think I am the same person that I once was. I suspect most of us aren't. As the pandemic and resulting economic anxieties extend further into the calendar and deeper into our mutual psyches, our habits will be altered - some temporarily, others permanent. Just as our grandparents (and great-grandparents) before them developed a propensity to save and to be financially conservative as a result of experiencing the Great Depression during their formative years, we also will be known for the changes about to take place in us. This pandemic will alter the curve of our future. We have now all borne witness to the results of our societal decisions or lack thereof, and experienced the consequences. I am reminded of a popular Greek myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus. They were imprisoned in a tower by the King of Crete. Being a great craftsman, Daedalus devised two pairs of wings using wooden frames, wax and feathers to escape and fly away. Daedalus warned his son Icarus that flying too near the sun would cause the wax to melt and the wings would fail. Icarus jumped from the tower, escaped and his wings allowed him to soar high over the ocean. It was not long, however, before Icarus forgot all about his father's warnings. Soon he was flying higher and higher. The warm sun quickly melted the wax, the feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea. I think today we may have flown too close to the sun. In 2015, Bill Gates, gave a Ted Talk titled "The Next Outbreak? We're Not Ready." It accurately described what would happen if a pandemic similar to COVID-19 occurred. He precisely warned of the impact and what the world needed to do to prepare for it. Bill Gates was our Daedalus, and like Icarus we were captivated by the joys and excitement of flying high and far. The question for us all now is - what next? What will we do differently? How will our future be reshaped?