We are living through a transformation as consequential as the Industrial Revolution, one that is touching every dimension of human life at once. Intelligence is no longer solely human. Work, learning, institutions, longevity, and leadership are all being reshaped in real time.
The Intelligent Age Series is Professor Klaus Schwab’s response: not a single book but a body of work comprising five volumes, each examining how one domain of human life must adapt. Together they offer a comprehensive map of the transition ahead. Read individually, each book equips you to navigate change in your own sphere. Read together, they reveal a deeper pattern: every institution, from the boardroom to the university to the retirement system, is confronting the same underlying shift, and none can adapt in isolation.
Where should you start?
New to the series?
Start with Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age – how individuals and leaders can adapt. As the foundational volume, it introduces the mindset and capabilities every reader needs before applying the framework elsewhere.
Leading a business?
Read The Competitive Enterprise in the Intelligent Age – how companies must transform to compete when intelligence itself becomes a competitive input.
Working in education?
Read Universities, Professors, and Students in the Intelligent Age – how teaching, learning, and the university’s role must change.
Concerned with institutions and society?
Read Restoring Truth and Trust – how institutions can regain legitimacy in an age of eroding confidence.
Thinking about longevity, lifelong learning, and the future of work?
Read Longevity and Retirement in the Intelligent Age – how longer lives demand new models of learning, work, and social contract.
Own the complete set to understand the Intelligent Age not as five separate challenges but as one transformation seen from five vantage points.
