Fascinating to watch the evolution of technology over the past 50 years. And it is indeed exponential.
However, I wonder how much a human being can handle and manage. It seems like too much and too fast sometimes.
Also, it scares me how much we depend on technology. Technology that is very vulnerable in many ways.
Technology is INHERENTLY DEMOCRATIZING. We wouldn’t have modern western industrial democracy or a bourgeoisie middle class without the industrial part. Our own Revolutionary war occurred precisely because England’s colonial empire discouraged manufacturing industry anywhere in the Empire other than the home country. England wanted nothing more than to rip us off for our raw materials, which remains the chief characteristic of modern day globalist financier empire building in the form of DEBT IMPERIALISM wherein a 3rd World nation’s natural resources are, in fact, the collateral for loans from the World Bank or the IMF. Technology is a death threat to feudalist war lordism which typifies predatory capitalism and monopolist cartels. Technology requires an educated work force, a work force that is literate and informed and which will fight against tyranny rather than succomb to “1984” slogans and newspeak.
Amazon is hiring vets and the family members of vets to work from their homes, where ever that might be.
We are hearing from local artists and makers of good stuff that they are getting questions and feelers from Amazon and Walmart re selling their products/creations on line.
Some excellent chefs are being contacted by Blue Apron and Amazon to set up meals for one or two or ? to be delivered for preparation by Prime users/customers.
Large HMOs/Clinics are looking at using retired RN’s to be their on call Nurses from home with access to patient medical records to help guide the patients to appropriate care with on call doctors available for instant consulting.
We know patients, who have taken pictures of rashes and wounds to be treated or during treatment to aid the doctors treating these patients.
The biggest service industry today seems to be the Comcast, Direct TV, AT&T and Verizon installers and problem solvers working from their trucks at customers’s homes. Watch for independents to work across the board paid by end customers or the biggies to do the jobs.
One of our younger relatives, who is a whiz with on board auto computers and the automobiles themselves, will be starting his own business with his sons/daughters. They will be going to customers’s homes or offices to handle and solve the problems with computers in vehicles. He feels that business will keep him and his offsprings working for decades.
We have another younger relative, who does the computer checkup on used cars and recommends what needs to be done to be certified and called pre-owned, (we laugh when we see that term instead of used).
The really good Construction Project Managers, those with real degrees in that skill and decades of positive work will be able to do most of that job on line in their home, their own fixed location office or a shared office building and even a mobile office. They will be able to pick and choose their clients to avoid the shady operators.
We know a couple of young pilots, who have Uber types of jet and prop planes for charter. They have done very well even during the Obama years. They are so busy after Trump won the election, they will be expanding. Their clients avoid the mass abuse of TSA, mobs of angry fliers and the Unfriendly Skies of United besides saving hours at a major airport. Even if they use a major airport, they don’t use the United/SW terminals.
If they can manage to free students of all ages from the horrible, failing government education system, it will all be worth it. I look forward to the day when people don’t have to be locked in classrooms marching lockstep with kids the same age for 16+ years. Most schools, including private schools, are still doing things the way they were done 100 years ago. At some point, education has to change to become more about the individual student and not about warehousing kids so both parents can work.
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This paragraph is all you have to read to know these guys are delusional. They are not factoring in human behavior...it’s as if everyone is an AI bot:
Electric cars won’t become main stream until 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. This represents a smooth doubling every two years of the amount of solar energy we’re creating, particularly as we’re now applying nanotechnology, a form of information technology, to solar panels. And we’re only eight doublings away from it meeting 100 percent of our energy needs. And there is 10 thousand times more sunlight than we need. The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies may be obsolete by 2025.”
I hope nobody is paying for this crap.
bump!