will have massive trouble
because without accidents,
the insurance will become
significantly cheaper. Their
car insurance business
model will disappear.
Electric cars won’t
become mainstream 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. The price for solar
will drop so much that all
coal companies will be out
of business by 2025.
With cheap electricity
comes cheap and abundant
water. Desalination now
only needs 2kWh per cubic
meter. 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.
There will be companies
that 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 breathe
into it. 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 medicine,
nearly for free.
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
days on their fields.
Agroponics will need much
less water. The first Petri
dish 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. There are several
start-ups that will bring
insect protein to the
market shortly. It contains
more protein than meat. It
will be labelled as
"alternative protein
source" (because most
people still reject the idea
of eating insects).
There is an app called
"moodies" which can
already tell in which mood
you are. Until 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
are telling the truth and
when not.
Bitcoin will become
mainstream this year and
might even become the
default reserve currency.
Right now, the average
life span increases by 3
months per year. Four years
ago, the lifespan 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
long time, probably way
more than 100.
The cheapest
smartphones are already at
$10 in Africa and Asia. Until
2020, 70% of all humans
will own a smartphone.
That means, everyone has
the same access to world
class education.
Dr Robert M. Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP is the
World Chairman of the International Medical
Commission and co-founder and Chairman of the
American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
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