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20 Trends into 2030: Are You Ready for The Massive Transformation of Just About Everything?
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| Type | article |
| Author | Jim Carroll |
| Publisher | JimCarroll.com |
| Date | 2019-12-24 |
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Predictions2030: TransportationTransportation: We've gone from driving cars and trucks based on carbon, gas and the internal combustion engine, to vehicles based on big batteries and computers. They mostly drive themselves, or do so in cooperative packs, talking to each other on a continuous basis with respect to traffic flow and other important matters. Cars have become, essentially,...Predictions2030: HealthcareHealthcare: Rather than having a system of 'sick-care' that fixed people after things went wrong, we've transitioned a good part of the system to real 'healthcare' - anticipating what people are likely to become sick with. Based on that knowledge, we've realigned the architecture of the healthcare system to deal with health care issues on a proactive,...Predictions2030: AgricultureAgriculture: Rather than farming when the sun is up, we've moved to a world of continuous 24 hour farming, aided by robotics, autonomous self-driving technology, and virtualized farming platforms based on Farmville concepts. The entire process goes by the name "real time spatial intelligence farming." A continuous flood of new technologies has come into...Predictions2030: InsuranceInsurance: We used to get insurance coverage based upon our historical behaviour or past actions. Now, insurance policies are written and adjusted in real time based on real time data and activities - so rather than looking back to assess and underwrite insurance risk, we increasingly do so by looking forward based on what we know right now. P&C, life...Predictions2030: RetailRetail: While we used to go to stores to get the stuff that we need, we now find that the majority of stuff comes to us via a wide variety of automated, intelligent last mile delivery technologies - delivery bots, automated drones and more. Most homes now have drone pads on their driveways and robotic storage lockers that safeguard the product after...Predictions2030: Cities and townsCities and towns: Massive urbanization has taken hold, with 70% of the earths population now scattered into about 40 megacities. This has driven the arrival of all kinds of fascinating new trends and industries that are based on people living in close proximity. A good example is vertical farming, or in-city farming: it's everywhere, and involves 100...Predictions2030: ConstructionConstruction : We used to send people and materials to a site in order for a building to be assembled. Now, we generally assemble the building offsite with robotic technology and 3D printing technologies, and send it to the site for final quick, fast assembly. Essentially, we've gone from building homes on site to building them in factories. AI and...Predictions2030: EducationEducation: We've gone from the concept of "foundational degree knowledge" to just-in-time knowledge - most people in the workforce have now mastered the skill of getting the right knowledge at right time for right purpose. The concept of the career has disappeared as most people transition from project to project at an absolutely furious pace - there is...Predictions2030: Energy and utilitiesEnergy and utilities : We've moved from a world of centralized energy production based on big facilities generating from carbon and nuclear, to a massively distributed architecture based on the input of millions of small, local renewable energy resources. We've gone from essentially dumb, one-way grids to highly intelligent two-way smart grids that...Predictions2030: FoodFood: We used to eat the same food that everyone else ate. Now, we eat food that is grown specifically for our particular DNA, and matched to our particular metabolic profile, based upon real time insight from monitoring technology built into our smart phone and clothing. A world of continuous body and health monitoring has appeared, driven by the idea...Predictions2030: Clothing and fashionClothing and fashion: The arrival of smart, connected, intelligent clothing led to marriage of fashion, healthcare and wellness. New fibres and textiles that are smart now link into the data-grid around you, adjusting their warmth and cooling cycles based upon real time information analysis. New textile science has also led to clothing that evolves it's...Predictions2030: ManufacturingManufacturing: We've transitioned from a world of mass production, with millions of products that are all the same, to one of mass customization, based on 3D printing, advanced materials, agility-based manufacturing methodologies and iterative, regenerative product design concepts. End-of-runway manufacturing and the end of the concept of inventory has...Predictions2030: Highways and infrastructureHighways and infrastructure: They've become smart, intelligent, connected. Your self-driving car doesn't just drive itself, but talks to other vehicles around it, to sensors embedded in the road, and to light poles and other road-tech that helps to guide it on its voyage. Amazon and other disruptors now provide for pay-per-access to the best route based...Predictions2030: Financial servicesFinancial services: We used to take out mortgages and loans to acquire the things we wanted, but now we simply get the things that we want for but a short time, and then move on to the next thing. We generally just share the stuff that we need rather than purchasing it for the long term. The result is that most banks are now just short term lending...Predictions2030: Hi-tech and technologyHi-tech and technology. We used to have things called computers, which were physically separate devices that we carried around or plopped on our desk. Now, intelligence is embedded everywhere; in our clothing, eyeglasses, cars, homes and factory. It’s just there. We don't even think about it much anymore, except when some hacker re-programs our...Predictions2030: Material science and chemical industriesMaterial science and chemical industries: We used to have 19 million known chemical substances, but now we have some 5 billion. We witnessed the birth of countless new industries and opportunities through the rapid acceleration of pure science. Mines were mined automatically with virtual robotics, and materials were engineered from constituent materials...Predictions2030: Legal and professional servicesLegal and professional services: The world of law and other professions is now driven by the acceleration of legal risk and hyper-complexity. This came about as the result of the rapid emergence of new risk, an era of ‘hyperconnected, shared risk’, more complex - and faster - corporate partnership risk, and other factors that came about as the result of...Predictions2030: Sports, fitness and recreationSports, fitness and recreation: A simple wooden baseball bat now exists only in a museum : the baseball bat of 2030 is now wirelessly connected to a web cam that automatically records a player’s swing style and speed. Kids live in a widely interactive world in which they are aware of all sports results and actions instantly through an online connection....Predictions2030: Entertainment and mediaEntertainment and media: The explosion of deep-fake technology in the early part of the decade made redundant the concept of CGI technology in film and media: instead, stock-footage of ready-to-fake video exists online. Actors have mostly become irrelevant - instead, avatars are ready off the shelf, ready to be turned into the next great performance. We...Predictions2030: The Unknown IndustryThe Unknown Industry: Last but not least, we saw the emergence of a new industry that we simply could not conceive of, and which did not exist on January 1, 2020. That's because some companies appeared that made products or services that did not exist, based on ideas and concepts that weren't yet around, with methodologies that had yet to be invented,...Collections20 Trends into 2030Twenty sector-by-sector forecasts Jim Carroll published in December 2019 about where major industries could be by 2030.