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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Random #5
If we don’t need to drive, we might find that we rather want to. We may return to the early days of the motor car when we drove for fun, not to go anywhere.
Random #4
New hierarchy of human needs:
Battery
Wi-Fi
Self-Actualisation
Esteem
Belonging
Saftey
Physiological
Random # 3
So here’s a thought. In the future passports and passport control will be less about where you have come from or where you were born. Instead they will be more about who you are and perhaps whom you know or what you think.
Random # 2
Random # 1
Delivery robots
So I saw one of these last night wandering around near London Bridge. I got talking to someone who said that research had shown that some customers didn’t like dealing with people when ordering delivery food. Apparently things can be a little awkward. Stangers and all that.
Two thoughts. This, and things like it, have almost certaintly been invented by people that do indeed have problems dealing with people. I’m sure such things work for them. But does this mean such things have to be imposed on the rest of us?
Second, what kind of world are we creating where people prefer interactions with machines to other people? A world, perhaps, were people live alone, work alone and don’t even go out to shop or eat. I’m sure that might work for a while, but I suspect that a long-term consequence might be emotional fragility and instability.
Remember not to forget to be human.
The next 33 years on a single sheet of paper
A sneak peek at a talk I’m doing tonight about what’s on my new mega trends map (and what’s in my head, which is much the same thing). Plenty more of these talks to come including a few that are public.
Quote of the week
I’m getting into deep looking (new book, long story) so this quote fits the bill.
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
Louise Gluck. (Quoted in Conde Nast Traveller).