On The Future : How Abundance is Changing The World

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We are living in a period of time where what is possible is speeding up at such an alarming rate and this is challening our perception of Stability. It makes you wonder what amazing Innovation is being kept under wraps

Humanity moved from putting cars on the road in 1908 to putting Men on the Moon in 1969. Technology is becoming more exciting and mind blowing.The time frame between the Internet and the Blockchain was even shorter This fast rate of change has led to the popular narrative that technology will lead to Job loss

At the same time we are moving towards an era of demonitization where what we previously paid for would be given to us free of charge by companies that produce them

This trend of abundance is not new to us, we have been seeing it In nature even though we mostly take it for granted, we have more oxygen than we require to survive the same thing with sunlight and water.

This is why the recent spike in demand for electricity will favour poor countries if they position themselves well, currently a huge majority of developing countries are better positioned to recieve sunlight, chief among them are African countries where the weather is mostly Tropical

The move towards a higher demand of electricity for a Automated Cars,Cryptocurrency Mining etc. Will favour a lot of countries that will be able to harness alternate power sources like Wind and Solar energy. The Sun currently gives us 8000 times more energy than we need on a daily basis. Companies like TESLA that produce Solar energy capturing products like Solar Panels will win

In Twenty Years time, it will be strange to have a Home without a Solar Roof

Elon Musk 2017

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Automated Cars

It is projected that in two years time, we will have full functioning autonomous electric cars and research have shown that it is 10 times more cheaper than owning a car

This might seem strange to you, but we have already seen this with the Camera. People no longer have to carry around film cameras anymore. Phone cameras have been proven to be more efficient for capturing pictures and videos

With the different work being done on Autonomous cars, it is predicted that Car ownership wil be dead in 2025. Ford is working to deliver high volume fully autonomous ride sharing cars by 2021. GM also have plans to deploy thousands of self driving cars this year in Patnership with LYFT ?????

Not to be left out in the race for autonomy, Google spinned out WAYMO in patnership with Chrysler and LYFT

Though previously listed as a Google project. WAYMO have become an entity of it's own and listed as a Subsidiary of Alphabet the parent company of Google. WAYMO have undergone a lot of live testing in 25 cities and counting. The cars used for the testing were not built by Google they were purchased from Fiat Chrysler as the company made it clear they have no plans to build vehicles

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Communication

When it comes to communication ,we are heading towards a time where more minds will be brought online with projects like Google Loon

Google Loon is a communication project that aims to connect the rest of the unconnected world to the Internet. Google are currently releasing Ballons into space that will beam the Internet to unreached areas

Over 25 million test flights have been conducted, with one ballon surviving the stratosphere for 190 days. The Ballons travel at a height of 20km above the earth's surface far above Airplanes, airborne animals and even the weather. Winds are used to get the Ballons where they need to be , algorithms have been designed that will help the Ballons move with the wind

The people who are coming online will most likely come onboard like we did. There is a high probability that they will be given mobile devices for free, this will serve as a gateway for the providers to sell them other products and services.

We have seen this happen with Sim Cards in Nigeria, we moved from buying Sim Cards for #23,000 ($65) to getting them for free so that we can come onboard a particualr network

These Companies that provide these devices may in turn harvest data and use It to know how to package goods and services for the populace

The world is changing rapidly and there are a lot of theories of amazing things being worked on that we don't know of yet. But with time we will know what technology has in store for us

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References

Elon Musk : The Future We are Building And Boring

http://www.techradar.com/news/waymo

https://x.company/loon/technology/

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