[PGR88]

There will be companies who will build a medical device (called the “Tricorder” from Star Trek) which .... will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free.

I am certain the US Government will find a way to make it frighteningly expensive.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Technology is INHERENTLY democratizing. ALL top town hierarchical power structures are about to vaporize. Upgrade or die.

[Lazamataz]

Zig for great justice.

[parmamenian]

I love driving. What about the freedom of riding a motorcycle, shifting gears, and the thrill of acceleration! The future looks depressing to me.

[rlmorel]

"...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 can be productive while driving..."

Oh, great. I can buy socks online while being driven.

I like the concept of having a self driving car. But I like the concept of being able to choose, because I like driving. And having a car that drives you, but belongs to someone else who runs what controls the car is repellent to me.

It smells of statism.

[Noamie]

70% of jobs vanish all while hyper-advanced, more expensive cars enter an already over-regulated, over priced market? Uhm. No. Plus, I like to drive. I like to own. “Renting” transportation is the sad, lowered expectation of an inner city socialist.

This also assumes that cities will remain, even as millineals are leaving the cities. Uber is not a small town or long distance business model. Plus, If I’m an Uber driver transporting one person to work, that is, at best, a net zero improvement over current traffic levels. It just means I’m spending $400 a month forever on a cab instead of a 36 month car payment.

Solar power? It drives UP the cost of power in every market it enters. And delivers less power. I’ve been hearing about solar fantasies my entire life.

3D printing is nice, but my wife can’t fix a paper jam. A 3D printer would piss her off. Big time.

Nope. Nope. Technology has a tipping point and the younger generation’s interest in all things that avoid technology should raise eyebrows... They sold more typewriters last year than in the past ten.

[alexander_busek]

There will be 90 percent less fewer lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain. Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 times more accurately than human nurses. [...] Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars will appear for the public. [...] Electric cars will become mainstream until by 2020.

But spell-check and grammar-check will still be sub-standard.

Regards,