Future Here Now: Future Proof or Future Ready?

I'm sure you have seen the ads. For training, AI, management courses, certificates.

"Future Proof your Career!!" they tell you.

I see those words far more often than I see Future Ready, except in my own writing.

It's an understandable stance for people living in the unsteady transition between human eras. We see, even if dimly,

that our collective future won't look like our past. Maybe not look much like it at all. And just like with other threats, like lightning and robbers and inflation, we try to guard against the impacts of change that we don't want. Rabbit-proof. Shock-resistant. Fireproof.

But can we future proof? I don't think so.