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Old 04-29-17, 12:25 AM   #14
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Interesting topic
Unfortunately extremely complex and vaste in intent. Reading the latest articles two points are IMO "nodal": a consciousness of ordinary people in their use of capital, to help maintain diversity in the industry (avoid excessive build up of monopoles). Apple in first istance ang Google are de-facto at the very front in accumulating capital both in form of money and of knowledge (private information on their customers). IMO not deserved, and especially when taking Apple, the fruit of a very successfull marketing strategy. The real value of the sold items is just a minor share of their price.
Energy (electricity) at low cost if not free is a vision I like, together with the shift from fossil fuels to low emissions energy carriers (i.e. energy from the sun again, stored as hudrogen perhaps). Both shifts are huge and touch a massive number of infrastructures and people, if I had to predict when that shift would cross the edge of the mountain I'd say many decades :-(
Another major expectation is IoT and smart factories, highly automated factories that can order, produce, repair themselves and deploy to market with almost no personnel. Hurde here cybersecurity. Again, not the thing for tomorrow IMO :-(

What I consider it to be more tangible evolutions are: explosion of information fruability (internet based). And since I named companies I name Facebook here. If say 20 years ago this amount was 10 now it is 500(?). If 20 years ago the reliable/relevant information was 10% of the whole, being optimistic it remained that much. Doing the maths, the daily spam dosis was 10-1=9 while today it is 500-50=450. Not sure how much sense this makes, but one way or the other it is rather challenging to filter out the RELEVANT news
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