Com puting | 1 70% of the global economy will be made up of digital technology (WEF)
2 IoT becomes ubiquitous
3 Digital currency supersedes paper currency
4 AGI emerges, surpassing human abilities
5 Neuralink style interfaces displace traditional cell phones
6 Cryptocurrencies replace pensions, life insurance, etc | 1 Adapt | 1 New, non-invasive interface technologies developed (brain wave, eyeball, and gesture sensing, voice-activated smart glasses) | 80% | A nation of 4-eyed geeks randomly waving their arms develops. Cellphones become passé.
Many humans lose ability to act independently of technology. | keyboards->mice->touch sensitive screens ->Siri->ChatGPT |
2 CBDCs displace existing currencies and savings | 80% | Potential for central bank overreach
Lack of physical cash as a backup, eg war, power failure
Possibility of breaching user privacy and creating a surveillance state | Barter, gold, notes, crypto |
3 Use of AI leads to decline in capacity for original thought amongst students, educators, politicians, writers | 60% | Most of THIS document’s content sourced from google
Is copying from a machine e-plagiarism?
Who is writing original, machine-independent and successful literature? |
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4 Privacy becomes impossible | 70% | When your fridge monitors your eating habits, and your toilet monitors your bowel movements, privacy is past. | Cameras and microphones on your computers and phones |
5. Cyber armageddon | 80% | Nuclear EMP or software equivalent occurs. All software and databases go down. Chaos at airports, stock exchanges, banks, hospitals, etc | Obama produced movie “Leave the world behind” portrays the effect of a civilisation wide cyber failure. Many regional failures. |
2 Or die | 1 Unwired part of world falls further behind intellectually and economically | 70% | Bringing the internet to the unwashed masses more important than food, healthcare or good governance |
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2 Unwired jurisdictions immune to AGI attack | 40% | May become Terminator-style havens of resistance to the robots | Terminator movies |
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Transport | 1 EVs account for just 18% of all cars sold
2 Majority of vehicles oil-fired for next 20 years
3 Flying cars remain science fiction for at least 10 years
4 FSD has potential to revolutionise vehicle market and usage
5 Drones are everywhere | 1 Transport becomes a commodity, rented as needed. | 1 Full Tesla self driving available in USA before 2026 | 80% | Most Tesla owners convert their vehicles to ride-sharing.
Vehicle accident rate in USA plummets.
Demand for Tesla’s escalates
Many urban dwellers dispose of traditional vehicles | No precedent |
2 Drone revolution intensifies | 1 Drones replace traditional warplanes in many airforces | 80% | Ukraine, Middle east, China/Taiwan deploy weaponised drones in huge numbers
Anti-drone measures only partially effective
Recent drone invasion on US east coast a test run by China, Iran, others | Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan |
Energy | 1 Green revolution has failed, replaced by oil and nuclear
2 Reliable fusion systems within 20 years (sarcasm, been predicted since 1960s)
3 Battery technology is pathetic
4 Energy deficit constrains most countries and industries
5 Third world remains an energy desert
6 Energy distribution has not advanced significantly since Nikolas Tesla
| 1 Oil remains a vital strategic asset until 2040 | 1 China, Europe, Africa threatened by lack of oil. | 90% | Treaties, fomented revolutions, invasions - ie business as usual.
World Economic growth constrained by limited energy availability.
Massive exploration efforts continue. | 1973, 1939 |
2 More focus on alternative energy distribution systems | 1 Local transmitted wireless energy system, (wi-power or wipow) similar to wifi, resolves battery shortcomings | 40% | Local wipow networks setup in urban areas.
Widespread opposition to wipow, due to supposed health risks.
Extended to road networks to power EVs. | Nikolas Tesla |
3 Dismantling of wind and solar farms begins | 1 Wind and solar reduced to legacy oddities, as subsidies dry up | 60% | Landscape eyesores eliminated
Productive land reclaimed
Bird and animal populations start to increase | Horses, steam, wood burning |
4 World economy benefits from more reliable energy sources | 5 Economic surge on back of energy revolution | 80% | Energy costs drop, inflation drops, poor benefit | Reagan, Thatcher |
Health | 1 Big pharma and big agriculture currently dominate the health market
2 Advent of Trump and RFK will upend the health business
3 US and Western health stats are catastrophic
4 Covid widely regarded as a scam
5 Ivermectin recognised as ‘miracle’ drug | 1 Republicans launch Covid enquiry | 1 Widespread corruption found in pharma companies, CDC, NHI. Many prosecutions follow, including Fauci | 80% | Pharma share prices collapse, many pharma companies go bankrupt.
Many drugs withdrawn from market | Thalidomide |
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2 Potential cures for cancer, heart disease, diabetes suppressed by pharma
| 2 New cheaper cancer treatments emerge | 70% | Fewer cancer deaths
Lower medical costs | Antibiotics |
3 Pharma immunity from prosecution for vaccines lifted | 3 Thousands of court cases brought against pharma companies. | 60% | Most pharma companies liquidate rather than fight cases
Shortage of medicines due to many liquidations
Pharma companies bought at fire sale prices by new market entrants | Oil companies after massive spill |
4 Vaccine links to numerous conditions exposed, including autism | 4 Number of vaccines dramatically reduced | 60% | Pharma profits from enforced vaccine regime reduced
Fewer childhood vaccine injuries reported | Post covid rejection of vaccines |
