All of the following will become reality in the next 10-20
years.
1 Basic auto repair shops will disappear. Read on to know why.
2 A gas/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical
motor has only 20 parts. Electric cars are sold with lifetime
guarantees and are repaired only by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes
to remove and replace an electric motor.
3 Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are
sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots
4 Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, and so you drive up
to what looks like a car wash, and your car is towed through while you
have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!
5 Gas pumps will go away.
6 Street corners will have meters that dispense electricity.
Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact,
they’ve already started in the developed world.
7 Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to
start building new plants that build only electric cars.
8 Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away.
Drilling for oil will stop. Say goodbye to OPEC! The middle east is
in trouble.
9 Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day
than they use, and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it
and dispense it to industries that are high electricity users. Has
anybody seen the Tesla roof?
10- A baby of today will see personal cars only in museums. The FUTURE
is approaching faster than most of us can handle.
11 In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo
paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model
disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that
ever happening?
12 What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of
industries in the next 5-10 years ... and most of us don't see it
coming.
13 Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you'd NEVER take pictures
on film again? With today’s smartphones, who even has a camera these
days?
14 Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had
10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law – that technological capacity
will DOUBLE every year. So as with all exponential technologies, it
was a disappointment for a time, before it became 'way superior' and
became mainstream in only a few short years.
15 It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial
Intelligence (AI), health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D
printing, agriculture, and jobs.
16 Forget the book, “Future Shock”; welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.
17 Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most
traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.
18 UBER is just a software tool; it doesn't own any cars and is now
the biggest taxi company in the world! Ask any taxi drivers if they
saw that coming.
19 Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although
they don't own any properties. Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that
coming.
20 Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in
understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go
player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
21 In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of
computers, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic
stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy – compared with 70% accuracy
when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There
will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, (what a thought!). Only
omniscient specialists will remain.
22 Computer programs already help nurses diagnosing cancer, and the
programs are 4 times more accurate than human nurses.
23 Facebook now has pattern recognition software that can recognize
faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more
intelligent than humans...COMPUTERS CAN BE UNPLUGGED...OR SHOT!!!!!
24 Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already
here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be
disrupted. You won’t WANT to own a car anymore as you will call a car
with your phone; it will show up at your location and drive you to
your destination.
25 You will not need to park it. You will pay only for the driven
distance and you can be productive while driving The very young
children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own
a car.
26 This will change our cities because we will need 90-95% fewer
cars. We can transform former parking lots into green parks.
27 About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide
including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every
60,000 miles. With autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in
6 million miles. That will save more than a million lives worldwide
each year.
28 Some traditional car companies will doubtless go bankrupt. They
will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while
tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary
approach and build a computer on wheels.
29 Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion
engines in their vehicles starting this year – with the 2019 models
using all-electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out the
hybrid models.
30 Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified
of Tesla – and they should be. Look at all the companies offering
all-electric vehicles. That was unheard of only a few years ago.
31 Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without
accidents, the costs will become cheaper. Their auto insurance
business model will disappear.
32 Real estate will change. If you can work from home (or from
literally anywhere), people will abandon their towers to move far away
to more beautiful affordable locations.
33 Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be
less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity.
34 Cities will have much cleaner air as well.
35 Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.
36 Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years,
but you can now see the burgeoning impact. And it’s just getting
ramped up.
37 Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to
the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations; but,
that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that
strategy.
38 Health: "Tricorder X" will be announced this year. Some companies
will build a medical device (called the Tricorder from Star Trek) that
works with your phone – taking your retina scan, your blood sample,
and you breathe into it. It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will
identify nearly any disease There are dozens of phone apps out right
now for health.
WELCOME TO TOMORROW! – some of this arrived a few years ago.
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