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Predictions
Here we are at the start of the fourth quarter and looking toward 2022. I thought I’d stimulate your thinking with a few predictions. Experts make predictions, and you should be doing the same for your clients and prospects.
We think about the past by applying memory, we consider the present by using perceptions, and we predict the future using imagination. While all three are imprecise, imagination is probably the weakest of them all. That’s because it’s difficult for many of us to remove our “filters” and allow ourselves to simply imagine.
Predictions
- 3-D printing will take on major proportions: cars, appliances, etc.
- A “southeast Asia confederacy” will be created to oppose Chinese expansion.
- The Chinese will launch at least a “soft war” (embargo, blockade, cyber-attacks) on Taiwan.
- Increased public monitoring will take place in theory to deter crime but in fact with a deterioration of privacy, including drones, cameras, and internet monitoring.
- Cars will communicate directly with highways in terms of accidents, driving conditions, and so forth. Software such as Waze will become obsolete.
- Fur clothing will be banned.
- There will be major movements against slaughtering animals for food.
- Human parts will be inserted into machines (automatons).
- There will be experiments in weaponizing weather.
- The decline of the oil industry will create major economic disruption.
- An extinct animal will be cloned and born using DNA (e.g., Woolly Mammoths in elephants).
- There will be a revival in organized religion.
- Abortion debates will lessen as a 99% effective birth control pill is available for men and women.
- Alzheimer’s disease will have an effective treatment creating massive increases in family quality and productivity.
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