Hi, welcome to Arc Invest's Big Ideas 2026 deep dive. I'm Brett Winton, the chief futurist, and I'm going to start right on slide four, which is titled the great acceleration. The um the core thesis both in this section and across the entire deck is that AI is the central dynamo, the spinning wheel of magic that is accelerating you know all the five major innovation platforms that we focus on and igniting a new era of um macroeconomic growth.Um so the five major innovation platforms AI, public blockchains, ...

GDP Growth Outlook - Real GDP growth is expected to accelerate to 7% in the next 5 years [1][2] - Historically, real GDP growth was around 0.5% per year before increasing to 3% for the last 125 years due to innovations [1] Innovation Platforms - Five innovation platforms are driving the acceleration: robotics, energy storage, AI, blockchain technology, and multiomic sequencing [2] - AI is turbocharging all five innovation platforms [2]