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Are you ready for the future? As in really ready? I'm glad I lived when I did cause I saw more actual freedom than most of the kids walking around now are seeing given all the helicopter parenting. I used to leave in the morning and so long as I have home for supper life was good. Not that I didn't have chores to do as in hand milking goats, collecting eggs, feeding umpteen farm animals and riding my horse but I was 'free'........

On the other hand when I read this about self-driving cars I did think this is exactly what Grandad needs........and it also does reduce accidents (as per this article) so ??? Maybe some of the future is going to be a really good thing.

Just got this as an email .... but it does really give you the "Are you REALLY READY for it?" feeling ......


Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world.

Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.

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.

In the U.S., young lawyers already can't get jobs.. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less 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% less lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.

Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 times more accurate than human nurses. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don't want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.

It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that. We can transform former parking spaces into parks.

1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles (100,000 km), with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 6 million miles (10 million km). That will save a million lives each year.


Most car companies will probably go bankrupt. Traditional car companies will try the traditional approach and try to build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will take the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla.

Auto Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, car insurance will become much cheaper. Their car insurance business model will slowly disappear.

Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.

Electric cars will become mainstream about 2020 Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, and now you can now see the burgeoning impact.

Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. Energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that can't last. Technology will take care of that strategy.

With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination of salt water now only needs 2kwh per cubic meter (@ 0.25 cents). We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.


Health innovations: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample, and you can breathe into it. https://tricorder.xprize.org/

It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medical analysis, nearly for free.

3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster All major shoe companies have already started 3D printing shoes. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/shop/3d-printers

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Some common spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports. The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amount of spare parts they used to keep in the past.

At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoes at home.

In China, they already 3D printed and built a complete 6-storey office building By 2027, 10% of everything that's being produced will be 3D printed. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015 ... d-building

Business opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: "In the future, do you think we will have that?", and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner?



If it doesn't work with your phone, forget the idea. And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st century.

Work: 47% of jobs will disappear in the next 25 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time. http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/47-of- ... university https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ive-health

Agriculture: There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all day on their fields.

Aeroponics will need much less water. The first Petri dish that produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don't need that space anymore. https://www.inabottle.it/en/environment ... less-water

There are several startups who will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labeled as "alternative protein source" (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 7228000115

There is an app called "moodies" which can already tell in which mood you're in. By 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions, if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they're telling the truth and when they're not. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moodies ... 45393?mt=8


Bitcoin may even become the default reserve currency ... Of the world!

Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it's 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more than one year increase per year. So, we all might live for a long time, probably way more than 100.

Education: The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. By 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone. That means, everyone has the same access to world class education. http://www.govtech.com/education/news/c ... art-2.html

Every child can use Khan academy for everything a child needs to learn at school in First World countries. There have already been releases of software in Indonesia and soon there will be releases in Arabic, Swahili, and Chinese this summer. I can see enormous potential if we give the English app for free, so that children in Africa and everywhere else can become fluent in English. And that could happen within half a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy


Are you ready for all this?


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Yup! Had an indication 50 years ago so the idea of moving out into the country for a rural life was something precious that we could give our children and they would probably not be able to give their children.

They too did their chores, collected eggs and milked the goats - to hear them now I wonder how they managed to go to school and do their homework!

I noticed then that a man who had been made redundant was teaching Archery of all things and making more money at it than in his original job. A lot of old skills are becoming more widespread quilting for one. What people used to do of necessity is now becoming a pastime and brings with it the need for new/old products.

Nature has a way of reducing oversized populations of any creature, so I fully expect human numbers to be drastically cut by war or disease. Those who are self reliant will survive, those who aren't will be helpless. It is what it is.
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I don't know why but ALWAYS in the back of my brain has been the idea that one morning I'm going to wake up and ALL electricty would be gone and I'd be back to the "good old days" of living a pioneering lifestyle.

I collect big glass jars that I store dried beans, rice in. I thought extremely long and hard before I finally gave away all my canning supplies but to this day it still worries me slightly that should the 'big one' hit I now do not have any way to store food. I still have a splitting maul (big axe) and a smaller one and I even know HOW to chop down a tree without having it fall on me. And to this day I still searching for a woodstove that is decorative (yet works) that I can put into the outside shed so that "just in case" I won't freeze to death over a winter here. Will admit I'm a bit paranoid this way, always have been and maybe in the States I'd of been considered something of a "Prepper" but I'm quite aware that many of the old ways do keep you alive and warm unlike the lifestyle most of us have today.

I lived here as a child having to make a fire daily, pump water from a well, hand milk goats etc. I don't do it now but I, for sure, DO know how to grow a garden, keep seeds, dry food, sew, darn, embroider (not that that is a vital skill) but I know many many things that are not even thought about now as they're 'old fashioned' but I do know if the big one came I'd be somewhat ready even it is is only to store my stuff in glass jars that mice can't chew through .........
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I can kill poultry and rabbits though I hate it, spin with a potato and a stick having harvested cast wool from the fences and shrubs. I can crochet, knit, weave, milk, make butter and butcher a pig sheep goat and bullock, which I have done many times. I also have a good working knowledge of natural remedies.
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Maybe we should start a club!

I've killed chickens, ducks rabbits. Plucked feathers, gutted fish and skinned out carcasses although can't admit to killing anything myself any larger than a chicken/duck/rabbit/fish and have never tanned a hide

As a kid I grew up with the idea that we had to grow and preserve food and keep it because if we didn't we wouldn't have enough to live through the winters so always a huge garden, always canning, drying, freezing. I had to sew clothes unless I wanted to walk around nude. It was quite a different lifestyle back then but it is always in my mind that any day how we're living now could stop. I've got a great store of dry food available and must admit I marvel that some people do live a lifestyle where they have nothing in reserve and only the immediate is available to them.
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We didn't even get a fridge until I was about 16 years old, it was at least another 16 years before I had a freezer I think. But bottling, big time.

When I was very young we preserved eggs in "isinglass" - my generation are natural hoarders, it's hard to keep it within bounds actually. :lol:
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