Head of VTB Private Banking Dmitry Breitenbikher asks scientists, businessmen and venture investors about the trajectories of change and the general contours of the future. Among his interlocutors are astrophysicist Sergei Popov; historian, director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, sociologist Alexander Bikbov; artificial intelligence specialist Mikhail Burtsev; venture investor Alexander Chachava and others.

The book focuses on technological, economic, social and cultural progress, ways and stages of personal development, possible business transformation and the emergence of new business models, assessing the impact of megatrends on people and markets.