welcome to tomorrow...if half of this comes true

Gary Reeder
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 11:11 (1504 days ago)

everything we know will change..


WELCOME TO TOMORROW!!

1- The basic auto repair shops will disappear. Read on to know why.

2- A petrol/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has 20. Electric
cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are repaired only by dealers. It takes only 10
minutes to remove and replace an electric motor.

3- Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair
shop that repairs them with robots

4- Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a car
wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your
car with a new electric motor!

5- Petrol pumps will go away.

6- Street corners will have meters that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical
recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started in the developed world.

7- Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new
plants that build only electric cars.

8-Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop.
So say goodbye to OPEC! The middle-east is in trouble

9- Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use
and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispense it to industries that are high
electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof?

10- A baby of today will see personal cars only in museums. The FUTURE is approaching
faster than most of us can handle.

11- In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide
Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who
would have thought of that ever happening?

12- What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of industries in the next
5-10 years ... and most people don't see it coming.

13- Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on film again?
With today’s smartphones, who even has a camera these days?

14- Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels but
followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for
a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years.

15- It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous
and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture, and jobs.

16- Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.

17- Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the
next 5-10 years.

18- UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi
company in the world! Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.

19- Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any
properties. Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming.

20- Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the
world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than
expected.

21- In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy
compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop
immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, (what a thought!) only
omniscient specialists will remain.

22- Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, it’s 4 times more accurate than
human nurses.

23- Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better
than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

24- Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next
2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted. You won’t want to own a car any
‘’ more as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive
you to your destination.

25- You will not need to park it, you will pay only for the driven distance and you can
be productive while driving. The very young children of today will never get a driver's
license and will never own a car.

26- This will change our cities because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can
transform former parking spaces into green parks.

27- About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including
distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles; with
autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles, That will save
a million lives plus worldwide each year.

28- Most traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. They will try
the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies
(Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer
on wheels.

29- Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in
their vehicles starting this year with the 2019 models, using all-electric or hybrid
only, with the intent of phasing out hybrid models.

30- Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla
and they should be. Look at all the companies offering all-electric vehicles. That
was unheard of, only a few years ago.

31- Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents,
the costs will become cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

32- Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people
will abandon their towers to move far away to more beautiful affordable locations.

33- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy
because all new cars will run on electricity.

34- Cities will have much cleaner air as well.

35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

36- Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now
see the burgeoning impact. And it’s just getting ramped up.

37- Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to
prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue
- technology will take care of that strategy.

38- Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies
who 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 bio-markers that will identify nearly any Disease. There are
dozens of phone apps out there right now for health.

Interesting.

ChrisG
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 11:45 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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Makes me glad to be a senior with no little kids and a

SPB
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 11:50 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Relationship with Jesus the Christ.

I try to live in what Jesus said ...

Jim Taylor
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 11:52 (1504 days ago) @ SPB

"Don't worry about tomorrow. Today has plenty of problems." I try not to spend today's Grace on tomorrow that has not arrived.

BUT .. I can't say I am real good at it.

Sorry Jim, I was already on my soap box rant...

Huey
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 12:00 (1504 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

Before your post was visible...

No problem. I agree with you. :)

Jim Taylor
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 12:05 (1504 days ago) @ Huey

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But.... Don't you reckon the horse breeders...

Huey
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 11:59 (1504 days ago) @ SPB

Had this same conversation with the gaining popularity of internal combustion engines?

When we are growing up, we feel like the world is ancient and we're out front. As we get older, the world starts advancing faster than we are. Every generation preaches gloom and doom as technology passes it by.

Of course, every generation is always the one that is correct and reads the signs.

I've always believed Jesus didn't reveal the end for good reasons. It would change who we are.

Grace is the best gift of all times. But, it requires believing in what we can't see or prove. My personal definition of "Faith."

Learn from the past, live today and God will provide for tomorrow.

Just my opinion...

Yea I am still waiting on the flying cars we are all

Blake
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 12:05 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Disposed to have. The electric car will likely replace the diesel in the next 20 years

the someone's knew this along time ago

Sunny
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 12:17 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

just watch the "kids" movie Wallee they already knew where this is going

This in no way means you cannot lead a simple life.

Sid R
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 12:52 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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I LIKE YESTERDAY BETTER.

JT
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 12:55 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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I'm with you John ...

Jim Taylor
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 13:12 (1504 days ago) @ JT

"But they've never seen the Northern Lights,
Never seen a hawk on the wing,
Never seen a spring hit the Great Divide,
Oh they never heard old Camp Cookie sing ..."

Agree.

SPB
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 13:40 (1504 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

V

Agree.

IC
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 13:58 (1504 days ago) @ SPB

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I think it will take a lot longer than 10 years for us to go

Gary Reeder
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 14:19 (1504 days ago) @ IC

all electric. I can't see me driving a Prius or a Honda Pilot or any of those other girlie cars. The car companies will have to come up with a "manly" vehicle before most men will change. I know some of the car companies are experimenting with electric pick up trucks. But the ones I have seen pictures of are too pretty to be a manly truck. Maybe in San Francisco but not in rural America. And out here where I live, when it snows 4 feet, will a driverless vehicle come get me? I sorta doubt it. And if the U.S goes all electric, what about the other countries. Are the third world countries going electric. Hell, Cuba is still driving 1950s cars. Is Mexico going to give up their gas guzzlers? I doubt it. Are the gangbangers in L.A. giving up their low riders for Prius'.It would take a special battery to run all their large speakers for their rap music.

Some of that article makes sense but some is a bit far fetched. It could very well happen but I don't see it in 10 years as the article states.

That article is like a lot of articles about the future

Jim Taylor
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 14:37 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

whether done by scientists or preachers, most of 'em never get it right. Life is too unpredictable for that. Just go back and read the predictions in the 1940's and 1950's of what life was going to be like in the year 1980 or 2000.

It's like the climate change folks. They been predicting calamity and ice caps melting since back in the 1960's or earlier. New York was supposed to be under water 30 years ago.

In the 1970's I heard preachers talking about the US economy collapsing by 1985.

And the beat goes on.

No different than what the Democrats are doing...

Huey
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 14:46 (1504 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

Predicting what will happen if we don't get rid of Trump.

It's one of those left handed things that can be proven or disproven. Somebody with loose lips just hopes it'll leave a bad taste in someone's mouth.

What about when all firearms become obsolete?

AJ
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 13:44 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

... you'll be able to propel formless energy "over there" with just a thought..!!
=^P

as long as mankind exists there will be weapons

Gary Reeder
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 14:07 (1504 days ago) @ AJ

maybe not firearms but some sort of weapon. That is man's nature. As long as good battles evil there will be weapons. It wasn't that long ago that there weren't any "firearms" but there were still weapons. They may be a gamma ray weapon or a laser beam weapon or just flinging dried cow turds, but man will find some way to fight back.

dried cow chips hurt if thrown right

Sunny
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 15:41 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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We all know how fragile technology can be

Bob Denning
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 16:38 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Gary has had computer problems that almost shut down this site.
Right after Christmas my Thompson Reuter’s cloud went down. I had to close my office for 10 days. I bet Blake could tell a few good Horror stories about electrical problems in Range Rovers. I know Sir Boggs relies on fragile computers to ensure water safety.

I BET everyone on this site has a story.

Point is. The more we rely on technology the harder the fall.
Most of our adult kids Would fall apart if there iphone falls out of there back pocket into the toilet

Bob Denning, your 50 AE is almost done.

Gary Reeder
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 16:51 (1504 days ago) @ Bob Denning

should be finished Monday.

Wow! This should go viral

Chance Dunlap
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Friday, February 14, 2020, 17:29 (1504 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

This is great post. As scary as it seems its also filled with new potential.

Skeptical

Burban
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Saturday, February 15, 2020, 08:54 (1503 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

On the one hand, it's been pretty amazing to see how phone booths have disappeared from the landscape.

On the other hand, they told me bank fees would go down once we got rid of tellers and went to these ATM devices. Haven't seen fees go down one little bit.

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