From Bob Noyce with the first silicon chip, to Steve Jobs with the first Apple 1 personal computer, to Vint Cerf, father of the internet. Each invention we created, pushed us forward into this future.

And the zeitgeist reflected this looming question, with blockbuster movies like The Terminator and Ex Machina, to bestselling books like Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot; we could not help but wonder what becomes of us when technology assumes our jobs.

We’ve been on a wild ride in our brief 5,000 years as a literate society. The first and second industrial revolutions saw us going from a society of local agricultural workers to working in mass factories in large cities; and then the third industrial revolution saw us go from mass factory workers selling manual labour, to knowledge workers that sell time.

Now, as autonomous driving vehicles start completing our driving jobs; the biggest tech companies use algorithms to automate our marketing & design jobs; as advanced AI begins completing our coding & engineering jobs, and Google searches make storing knowledge largely redundant - the next revolution is happening right infront of us.

As our process-driven roles become automated, it’s time for us to stop doing repetitive physical/mental tasks that are already formulaic. As technology takes over these routine tasks for us, this frees up human capital to do what is uniquely human: to apply creativity, vision and empathy to tackle our yet unsolved problems. In short, to be entrepreneurs.

It’s time to realise our full abilities as a species. Imagine a world where every human was empowered to use their ingenuity to solve a problem they deeply cared about, and to become financially independent off of this work. Climate change, sustainability, disease & hunger.

Imagine the progress we would make.

To train this workforce of the future, we need a new education system. One that isn’t focussed on memorizing facts to regurgitate in exams - instead is fiercely practical in problem-solving and value-creation. One where the outcome isn’t a certificate, but an actual revenue generating company. One where you aren’t taught by academics, but successful entrepreneurs. And one that isn’t prohibitively expensive because of expensive campuses, but is affordable and accessible to anyone around the world.

At Oneday, we create technologies for the education of this entrepreneurship generation. From k12, to teenagers, adult education and above. Education that will create generations of entrepreneurs across the next 100 years, so we may thrive as a society and attribute our best talent to become financially independent from solving problems they deeply care about.

Since the first moment that a transistor was created, this was the destiny we shaped for ourselves; so that one day we could stop behaving like machines, and do what is uniquely, deeply, passionately, human. We exist to make that one day happen.