Schools are in our Kodak/Blockbuster moment and we need to change radically or become irrelevant. Our central learning challenge is helping people cope with a faster rate of change as digitisation and exponential acceleration fundamentally reshape the world. We all need to become more aware of how we are algorithmically shaped by our tools. For the workforce of 2040, the competitive advantage will be the ability to offer value beyond an algorithm. The new world of artificial intelligence, globalisation and flexible work requires people who have the skills, capabilities and mindset to see possibilities, seize opportunities, to make a difference in their communities and be agents of change. Learning is a biological, evolutionary necessity for survival, not an institutionalised practice. Education will be a key driver for the innovation economy and a focus on literacy and numeracy is no longer enough. While writing is still important, it needs to co-exist with the ‘non-text’ media of graphics, colour, lines, animation and sound. I am particularly interested in the gap between schools and learning.