Remember the end of the '90s? In each place, even in a small town, on every corner, there were points of sale and developing film (with a maximum of 36 frames - and all!). And by Kodak, where 170,000 people were working, it sold 85% of the entire photographic film and paper in the world. In just a few years, this business model is gone, and how Kodak and numerous shops Film went bankrupt.
What befell Kodak in the late 90's to happen in many industries in the next 10 years, although most people do not see this turn of events. But it clearly foresee scientists Singularity University (Singularity University), created with NASA and Google. Not for nothing that they are called "University of forward looking".
"Culprit" of future metamorphoses - 4th Industrial Revolution and exponential technology. Not very clear? Simply put, it is computer technology, whose development speed is not, very, very fast growing. Their speed increases, and the existence of many trades and phenomena are also rapidly declining.
♦ In the near future will disappear usual taxi firm with his taxi cab company. Analog of such innovations - the largest taxi company Uber, owning only a special computer program.
♦ The company AirBnB - it is in fact the biggest hotels in the world, although the company and does not have any one particular location. We found a room on the Internet, ordered, paid for through the Internet, and all - you can call in.
♦ You will not need editors and writers in the future, since the robot-computer has already won a literary contest in humans.
Computer won the game of Go (it's much harder to chess) have the best player in the world, with 10 years earlier than expected
♦Lawyers, let us goodbye. Joke. However, in the US one can already obtain legal advice through the IBM Watson for several seconds. The accuracy of the lawyer-PC - 90%, and the lawyer-human - 70%. Forward looking believe that only 10% of the lawyers in the future will remain - a very, very narrow specialists.
♦ Doctors note that IBM Watson device diagnose cancer is 4 times more accurate than it would have done the most experienced doctor. Well, except that, Dr. House will remain as a style icon.
Device Tricorder, combined with the telephone, retina scans, blood and analyze the composition of the air on inspiration and expiration, and then will give a diagnosis on 54 indicators and possibly the recipe. And there are no queues at the clinic.
By 2030, the "intelligence" of computers surpass human
♦Scientists believe that the 2018-2020 year, self-governing cars become widely available, and after 2020 of a familiar automotive industry will begin to disappear. As Kodak in the 90's. Own car is no longer needed.
♦And the taxi driver. You will need to call the car via the Internet, the machine arrives she and itself will take you to the destination.
Owners of Audi and Volkswagen seriously afraid of the invasion of Tesla cars
♦ The next generation of people will not take on the rights and purchase cars, and this will radically change the megacities. More air, and parks instead of parking cars.
♦ Of course, by itself it will disappear and the need for a car inspection... breathing into a tube.
♦Unenviable fate awaits in the future, and insurance companies. Without car accidents insurance will practically disappear.
♦ Solar energy will become a familiar and cheap that it would lead to the closure of coal companies already in 2025. Cheap electricity - the path to abundance of drinking water that will receive the method of desalination.
Well, how justified those predictions, we'll certainly have time to see. Maybe even sooner than promised looking forward.
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