As 2025 draws to a close, I find myself at the epicentre of a profound strategic misalignment in the technology world. On one hand, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has delivered at a scale few could have predicted even three years ago; it is now the undisputed operational core of global commerce, driving spectacular technological breakthroughs in fields from personalised medicine to autonomous manufacturing. Yet a persistent, unsettling anxiety grips the financial markets, the c