HOW CAN WE PREPARE OURSELVES FOR A.I.?
Facts are no longer enough. In the age of AI, curiosity is survival.
Have you noticed how fast AI is moving?
Every week there’s a new course.
A new feature.
A new headline about jobs changing—or disappearing.
Sometimes it feels like every other day.
So… Can we ever catch up?
Some think it’s a bubble. That it will burst.
Unlikely.
The big players chasing AGI may or may not get there.
But “narrow AI”- the kind built into everyday tools – will keep spreading.
Translators. Navigation apps. Image recognition. Office tools.
Quietly reshaping how we live and work.
So how do we prepare?
If you’re just a user, you’re already covered.
AI is running behind the scenes – optimising your food delivery or suggesting edits in your documents.
But if you want to create value?
To stay relevant?
You need more.
You need curiosity.
The kind that asks: could this be done differently? could this be done better?
And when it comes to the next generation… curiosity alone won’t be enough.
As I shared at TEDx on 13 September 2025, Multimedia University:
AI will change the world faster than any education system can keep up. We can’t hand the next generation all the answers – AI will always have more answers.
But we can give them the ability to ask better questions.
We need schools to change.
Not just teaching kids to cram for exams.
But to:
Spark imagination – the power to create something from nothing. Feed curiosity – the courage to ask “what if?” and “why not?”
CURIOSITY is the spark.
CREATIVITY is the fuel. 
The future won’t belong to those who memorise the most facts.
It will belong to those who can IMAGINE what doesn’t yet exist.
Let’s raise children not just to use AI.
But to out-think it.
Because the next generation won’t just cope with the future.
They’ll shape it.
