Living in Exponential Times

Artificial intelligence isn't going to change the world: it already is.

It has stopped being an emerging technology and become the force rewriting how we work, learn, create, decide, and compete. While technology advances exponentially, our companies, institutions, careers, and habits keep trying to adapt with linear reflexes. The gap between those two speeds is the defining tension of our time.

A compass, not a technical manual

Living in Exponential Times is not a book about AI, nor a checklist of tips for your company. It's a compass for understanding this change of era without falling into either hype or panic. With a close, strategic, and deeply human perspective, Carlos Galve Pellicero explores why this revolution is transversal, transformational, and transcendental, and what it means to live, work, and lead when the map - and its rules - change every quarter.

What you'll find inside

• The Three T's: the lens for spotting what truly matters - transversal, transformational, transcendental.


• The Three A's: automate, augment, and anticipate as the operating stages of change.


• The Four Redefinitions: how we create, work, learn, and govern in the exponential moment.


• ExOS, the Exponential Operating System: six interdependent blocks for operating at the speed of change.


• The Four Brakes: the cognitive and institutional obstacles that stall adaptation - and how to release them.

Because in exponential times, standing still is also a decision.

Who this book is for

For professionals who make consequential decisions - about their career, their company, or how they fit into what's coming. For business leaders, entrepreneurs, consultants, and anyone who senses the world is changing faster than their mental tools can process. You don't need to be a technology expert: you just need to be willing to read the map honestly.

A living edition

The print book connects to exponentialtimes.blog, a digital platform with extended content, diagnostic tools, updates, and an AI mentor trained on the book itself. Because a book about exponential times couldn't stand still.

About the author

Carlos Galve Pellicero leads AI transformation at a major global technology corporation. He sits on the investment committee of several venture capital firms and advises boards of directors. For more than twenty-five years he has worked on the front line of the great technological waves. This is the one that's ours today: artificial intelligence - the one rewriting the rules of the game.