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Nine Trends and Inventions That Will Shape the Face of the 21st Century!
by Marcel Bullinga, President, Futurecheck The Netherlands
These trends and inventions will have the same impact on our lives as the car, the TV and the airplane had on the life of our parents. In the future, we will live in a 3D mobile media cloud with no on/off button, replacing all current communication devices. Our children won’t remain children as long as we did. Overall business quality will rock sky high. There will be fewer opportunities for fraud and cheating, but our ethics will continue to be disputable.
So, what is In and what is Out in the future?
- We live in senior cities and in innovation villages. The difference between city and village in a 75% urban world is diminished.
- We produce only green and mainly local products. We consume only green and mainly local forms of energy. It is either green profit or no profit at all. Green leaders are financial leaders.
- We drive and live in energy-providing cars and buildings, using local forms of energy. This will greatly reduce our geopolitical dependency of terrorist oil states and unstable regimes.
- We drive more in virtual cars and less in real cars. This will reduce and prevent a huge amount of very expensive physical mobility.
- We live in a consumers’ paradise, thanks to transparency and intelligent production systems. However, for workers and entrepreneurs, the future is more of a battlefield.
- We use cheap product printers – our own personal factories – to print small household products, spare parts, various energy sources and even buildings on the spot, using local resources and local raw materials. This will reduce and prevent a huge amount of long-distance transport, energy usage and failure costs.
- We live in a mobile 3D media cloud, controlled by you, your mobile, and your own personal dashboard. In the media cloud, you are boss over your privacy, your communication and your data: 100% privacy at last. The 3D mobile media cloud surrounding us will affect our children as well: the WiFi Generation. They will be growing up faster than ever before, reaching puberty and adulthood earlier, as they are exposed at a young age, to adult information not meant for children. And because they can be reached individually by anyone at a very young age, parents have less control over the information intake of their children and lose sight of whom they meet.
- In the 3D mobile media cloud of the future, you have your own personal global dashboard, containing all your finances, dossiers and transactions. It creates transparency and checked trust. Basically, it contains your past and your future.
- In this media cloud and personal dashboard, we use intelligent money that knows its owner and its purpose, and knows to whom it may be sold or not. This brings checked trust into the world, avoiding a new financial crisis. It makes pyramid games impossible, prevents the majority of current fraud, and provides you with a solid mortgage. What is In and what is Out in the Future?
| IN | OUT |
| Sun | Oil |
| Local energy | Energy that needs long distance transportation |
| Cultural borders | Country borders |
| Green profit | Waste |
| Silver aged generation | Youth |
| Knowing before | Knowing after |
| Media cloud | iPod, radio, TV, mobile phone |
| Data privacy | Visual privacy |
| Noise | Silence |
| Transparency | Not knowing |
| High skills | Low education |
| Entrepreneurship | Wages |
| Check & self check | Blind trust |
| Mobile | Fixed |
| Learning factory | School |
| Professionals | Managers |
| Monocultural rituals | Multicultural rituals |
| Santa Claus & Christmas tree | No Santa Claus & Christmas tree |
| Secular | Orthodox religion |
| Population shrink | Population growth |
Do your own Futurecheck brainstorm!
Take the product you make, the service you deliver, or the work you do, and put all nine trends before the word. Then see what happens. This will prepare you for the future.
You make cars? Imagine Intelligent Car, Self Car, Green Car, You Car..... What changes does this imply? And how do you prepare for these changes?
Read Marcel’s complete profile here.