| > Greater empathy by proliferation of virtual reality. For a vr world where you can live someone's life that's not crap we will have to have hit the singularity, which conflicts with a lot of the other ideas. > Gestures that previously were arcane are now the way to invoke computer programs This is a strange one. Why would you gesture for a check and not just push a button to just pay it. Is it a themed restaurant? > China, India, and the United States are the three world powers. Not sure why these three are picked. China I get. >A good segment (30%) of the world barely works. There's no reason the think the rest of the world will support them. Besides which currently most people can live this in the first world. Rural property is cheap and so is simple food. But most of the population wants more than just food and a house. Like high end medical care and GoT. > More and more infrastructure follows a pay-per-use model. People don't like making a stack of small losses. We prefer to pay big then use the products at our leisure. I can't see this changing. There's some interesting thoughts here's. Misses the mark in bits as well though. Burning man that never ends, not sure what to think about that. But I can see it happening. |