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The future is already here, are you part of the future, are your children part of the future?
*Self-piloting aeroplane (photo credit: medium.com)
Edited By Oyakhamoh Y. Carl-Abu’Bakar in Lagos | September 15, 2021
Just seventeen years ago, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they were bankrupt.
This will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years – and most people in those industries don’t see it coming. It will happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. Software disrupting 90% of traditional industries within 5-10 years. It is amazing to think that Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.
In the US, young lawyers can’t get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. Watson already helps nurses diagnose cancer, 4times more accurate than human nurses. Facebook has pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.
Robot Bodyguard named Titan is one of the latest high-tech innovations in security. Titan, it was gathered, can speak 6 languages. It can also sing and dance and entertain its audience. It can rescue its principal, literally, carry him from mobs and can also physically fight, chase and shoot at opponents.
*Titan; the Robot Body-guard
Titan is armed with an electric teaser, an undisclosed 360 degrees camera system secondary to a set of infrared cameras. It also has three hidden machine guns with enough ammunition to fight 1050 men and a laser-guided sniper machine gun.
The Robot, which sources say cost about US$7.4 million, also carries the medications and water.
In 2019 the first self-driving cars appeared. By 2025 most of us won’t own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up and drive you to your destination. Our kids will never get a driver’s licence and will never own a car.
Cities will have 90-95% fewer cars, parking spaces can become parks. We now have one car accident every 60,000 miles, autonomous driving will drop that to 6 million miles and save a million lives each year. Many car companies could become bankrupt. Without accidents, insurance will become 100 times cheaper, the car insurance business model will disappear. Real estate will change, because working while you commute will enable people to live better further away.
Cities will be less noisy because cars will be electric. Electricity will be incredibly cheap and clean: Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than new fossil installations. The price for solar will drop so much that coal companies will be out of business by 2025.
*Electric car recharging its battery cells (photo credit: CEJN)
With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as they need, for nearly no cost.
One of the major beneficiaries will be health: There will be companies who will build a medical device called the “Tricorder” that works with your phone, taking your retina scan, your blood sample and when you breathe into it. it 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.
The future is already here. Is Nigeria Ready for the Future? Are Nigerians ready for the future? The changes are quietly creeping in on us;
* Who is using Post Office today?
* In the last 2 years many people have not bought or read a newspaper.
* TV and cable TV is on their way out with smart TV connected to the internet and you can watch millions of channels with your data.
* Going to the restaurant is now a mere walk to exercise your body otherwise the food vendor is there to deliver to you at home or office when you dial your choice from the comfort of your room.
The future is already here, are you part of the future, are your children part of the future?
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