If you are interested in organisations and geometry, these are heady times. The classic shape of the company hierarchy is a pyramid: lots of people at the bottom, tapering to a single point at the top. But the possibility that firms will need many fewer people because of AI means that pyramids may become passé. Some reckon the organisation of the future will look like an obelisk, with a vaguely similar shape but fewer people at each level. If you believe that entrepreneurs will be able to create huge firms on their own, the shape of the future might end up being a dot.
