All Discussions Tagged 'The' - 63/64 Cadillac Website2024-03-28T20:12:55Zhttps://6364cadillac.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=The&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPredictions for the Futures (source unknown)tag:6364cadillac.ning.com,2019-01-02:6543066:Topic:1962922019-01-02T15:02:58.000ZJason Edgehttps://6364cadillac.ning.com/profile/jasonedge
<p>I saw this posted on the CLC forum but the poster did not remember the source. If someone knows where this came from I would like to provide credit for it. <br></br>Regardless, I thought I would post here to the 63/64 site as I have mused about some of these future predictions from time to time:<br></br><br></br></p>
<p>> Subject: Very<br></br>> Interesting Predictions<br></br>> Really is food for<br></br>> thought...and<br></br>> scary too....Young folks should<br></br>> pick careers<br></br>> …</p>
<p>I saw this posted on the CLC forum but the poster did not remember the source. If someone knows where this came from I would like to provide credit for it. <br/>Regardless, I thought I would post here to the 63/64 site as I have mused about some of these future predictions from time to time:<br/><br/></p>
<p>> Subject: Very<br/>> Interesting Predictions<br/>> Really is food for<br/>> thought...and<br/>> scary too....Young folks should<br/>> pick careers<br/>> carefully<br/> <br/>> The Future</p>
<p>> Auto repair shops will<br/>> go away.<br/>> A gasoline engine has<br/>> 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has 20.<br/>> Electric cars are sold with lifetime<br/>> guarantees and are only repaired by dealers. It takes only<br/>> 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor. Faulty<br/>> electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are<br/>> sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with<br/>> robots. Your electric motor<br/>> malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks<br/>> like a Jiffy-auto wash, and your car is towed through while<br/>> you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new<br/>> electric motor!</p>
<p>> Gas stations will go<br/>> away. Parking meters will be replaced by meters that<br/>> dispense electricity. Companies<br/>> will install electrical recharging stations; in fact,<br/>> they’ve already started. You can find them at select<br/>> Dunkin Donuts locations.</p>
<p>> Most (the smart) major<br/>> auto manufacturers have already designated money to start<br/>> building new plants that<br/>> only build electric cars.<br/> <br/>> Coal industries will<br/>> go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for<br/>> oil will stop. So say goodbye<br/>> to OPEC!<br/> <br/>> Homes will produce and<br/>> store more electrical energy during the day than they<br/>> use and will sell it back to<br/>> the grid. The grid stores it and disperses it to industries<br/>> that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla<br/>> roof?</p>
<p>> A baby of today will<br/>> only see personal cars in museums.</p>
<p>> The FUTURE is<br/>> approaching faster than most of us can<br/>> handle.</p>
<p>> In 1998, Kodak had<br/>> 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.<br/>> Within just a few years, their<br/>> business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who<br/>> would have thought of that ever<br/>> happening?</p>
<p>> What happened to Kodak<br/>> will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years<br/>> and, most people don't see<br/>> it coming.</p>
<p>> Did you think in 1998<br/>> that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on film<br/>> again? With today’s smart<br/>> phones, who even has a camera these<br/>> days?</p>
<p>> Yet digital cameras<br/>> were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000<br/>> pixels, but followed Moore's law.<br/>> So as with all exponential technologies, it was a<br/>> disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and<br/>> became mainstream in only a few short years. It will now<br/>> happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence,<br/>> health, autonomous and electric<br/>> cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and<br/>> jobs.</p>
<p>> Forget the book,<br/>> “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial<br/>> Revolution.</p>
<p>> Software has<br/>> disrupted, ... and will continue to disrupt most traditional<br/>> industries in the next 5-10 years.</p>
<p> <br/>> UBER is just a<br/>> software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the<br/>> biggest taxi company in the world!<br/> <br/>> Ask any taxi driver if<br/>> they saw that coming.</p>
<p> <br/>> Air BnB is now the<br/>> biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't<br/>> own any properties.</p>
<p>> Ask Hilton Hotels if<br/>> they saw that coming.</p>
<p>> Artificial<br/>> Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in<br/>> understanding the world.</p>
<p> <br/>> This year, a computer<br/>> beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than<br/>> expected.</p>
<p>> In the USA, young<br/>> lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's<br/>> Watson, you can get legal advice (so far<br/>> for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90%<br/>> accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So,<br/>> if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer<br/>> lawyers in the future, (what a thought!) only omniscient<br/>> specialists will remain.</p>
<p>> Watson already helps<br/>> in diagnosing cancer, it's 4 times more accurate than<br/>> human nurses.<br/>> Facebook now has<br/>> pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better<br/>> than humans. By 2030, computers<br/>> will become more intelligent than<br/>> humans.<br/> <br/>> Autonomous cars: In<br/>> 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the<br/>> next 2 years, this entire industry<br/>> will begin to be disrupted. You won't want to own a car<br/>> anymore as you will call a car with your phone, it will show<br/>> up at your location and drive you to your destination. You<br/>> will not need to park it ... you will only pay for the<br/>> driven distance and you can<br/>> be productive while driving. Very young children of<br/>> today will never get a driver's license and will never<br/>> own a car.</p>
<p>> This should change our<br/>> cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can<br/>> transform former parking spaces<br/>> into parks.</p>
<p>> 1.2 million people die<br/>> each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or<br/>> drunk driving. We now<br/>> have one accident every 60,000 miles; with autonomous<br/>> driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles.<br/>> That will save a million lives plus worldwide each<br/>> year.<br/> <br/>> Most traditional car<br/>> companies will doubtless become bankrupt. Traditional car<br/>> companies will try the evolutionary<br/>> approach and just build a better car, while tech companies<br/>> (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach<br/>> and build a computer on wheels.</p>
<p> <br/>> Look at what Volvo is<br/>> doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in<br/>> their vehicles starting this<br/>> year with the 2019 models, using all electric or hybrid<br/>> only, with the intent of phasing out hybrid<br/>> models.<br/>\<br/>> Many engineers from<br/>> Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of Tesla and<br/>> so they should be. Look at<br/>> all the companies offering all electric vehicles. That was<br/>> unheard of, only a few years ago.<br/>\<br/>> Insurance companies<br/>> will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the<br/>> costs will become cheaper. Their<br/>> car insurance business model will<br/>> disappear.<br/>\ <br/>> Real estate will<br/>> change. Because if you can work while you commute, people<br/>> will move farther away to live<br/>> in a more beautiful or affordable<br/>> neighborhood.<br/>\<br/>> Electric cars will<br/>> become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy<br/>> because all new cars will run on<br/>> electricity.<br/>\<br/>> Cities will have much<br/>> cleaner air as well. (Can we start in Los Angeles,<br/>> please?)<br/>\<br/>> Electricity will<br/>> become incredibly cheap and clean.<br/>\<br/>> Solar production has<br/>> been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now<br/>> see the burgeoning impact.<br/>\<br/>> And it’s just<br/>> getting ramped up.<br/>\<br/>> Fossil energy<br/>> companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid<br/>> to prevent competition from home<br/>> solar installations, but that simply cannot continue -<br/>> technology will take care of that<br/>> strategy.<br/>\<br/>> Health: The Tricorder<br/>> X price will be announced this year. There are companies who<br/>> will build a medical device<br/>> (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that<br/>> works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your<br/>> blood sample and you breath into it. It then analyses 54<br/>> bio-markers that will identify nearly any Disease. There are<br/>> dozens of phone apps out there right<br/>> now for health purposes.<br/>\ <br/>> WELCOME TO TOMORROW<br/>> – it actually arrived a few years<br/>> ago.</p>