Suggested Reading Journey: Building Toward Industry 5.0 (Augmented with chatgpt 5) - Part 2

Chatgpt 5

When we talk about Industry 5.0, it’s not just about technology—it’s about people, culture, and sustainable flourishing. To help you navigate this journey, I’ve put together a curated reading path that blends the human insights of thought leaders with the practical frameworks I use in my own innovation work.

Step 1: Understanding Our Digital Landscape

📖 The Digital Landscape: Our Increasingly Intertwined Lives by Hal Gottfried

• Start here to understand how technology is reshaping our psychology, relationships, and society.

• Chapter One is free to read on Hal’s website, and it offers a powerful wake-up call about the attention economyand the hidden effects of our digital habits.

• This is the why behind Industry 5.0: technology must evolve to serve humanity, not the other way around.

Step 2: Learning to Navigate Change

📖 The Future is Faster Than You Think by Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler

• This book unpacks how exponential technologies are converging and reshaping industries.

• It gives you a clear picture of the speed and scale of change.

• Pair it with Hal Gottfried’s work to see both the opportunities and the risks of the digital era.

Step 3: A Human-Centered Innovation Approach

🔗 My Designed Methodology

• This is my contribution: a sector-agnostic, end-to-end innovation methodology built to move ideas from 0 to 1.

• It blends frameworks like Design Thinking, Sequential Backcasting, VUCA, and FLUX, but goes further by adapting to any industry or vertical.

• This is the how of Industry 5.0: practical steps to design solutions that prioritize people, planet, and prosperity.

Step 4: The Future of Human + Machine Collaboration

📖 Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI by Paul R. Daugherty & H. James Wilson

• Explores how AI can augment—not replace—human capabilities.

• Connects directly with Industry 5.0’s principle of human-technology symbiosis.

• Read this with my methodology to see how organizations can put Industry 5.0 into practice.

Step 5: Flourishing as the Ultimate Goal

📖 Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being by Martin Seligman

• A reminder that innovation and technology aren’t ends in themselves—they are means to support human flourishing.

• Industry 5.0 isn’t just about economic growth. It’s about building sustainable futures where people and societies thrive.

Closing Thought

This reading journey will take you from understanding the current digital challenges (Hal Gottfried), through the speed of change (Diamandis & Kotler), into the methodologies and practices (my designed framework), and finally toward human flourishing as the ultimate destination.

👉 Begin with Hal Gottfried’s The Digital Landscape here, and then explore my Industry 5.0 methodology to see how we can turn insights into action.