"If you live in the future, all cars will be electric, so build Tesla Motors"
What are your quotes about the future and its opportunities ?
You won't drive, autonomous cars will come to pick you up and drop you off, including round trips. That's why 14 out of 15 car dealerships went bust.
You won't use paper, all of your receipts, tax documents, contracts, and mail will be digital and sent to a i-mail address assigned to every US citizen. And you'll view all these documents on your "wall screen".
Power cords will found no where. Nearly every device will be powered by wireless electricity.
You won't have a tv, you'll have a "wall screen" a giant thin film like flexible plastic sheet covering one of your walls which will display a crisp high definition picture.
Touch was so last century. "Look and Think" technology is where it's at. Calibrated Brain wave readers and eye cameras in the corners of your room can see what elements on the screen you're looking at and can execute commands based on certain thoughts.
You'll have 1 super computing pc in your home to which you will connect all your devices and. It. Will. Be. Bad Ass. Because it'll be like a server for every device your family has it connected to. And contain pretty much all of your media, documents, and data which will be streamed out to external devices. Contrary to popular belief in the future everything is NOT in the cloud, because the cloud costs a corporation money to run and maintain. Back in the early 2000s era cloud services were popular before companies like Google and Microsoft realized they were losing money on services that didn't and couldn't generate a revenue and sunsetted them. Consumers have also lost trust in someone else keeping their data. Your super PC will be so cheap and software so easy and automated you'll have no reason not to set one up. Plus the technologically uneducated of the early 2000s have already died off, as have several generations of their semi computer literate offspring, leaving a society that is truly very very tech savvy.
You'll have an e-ID issued by the government which you can use to sign on securely to important websites that manage your taxes, benefits, payroll, etc... It will be created in 2021 after facebook (the former issuer of online IDs) suffers from a massive security breach caused by Chinese Hackers.
Taxes will also be easier, and are no longer done by person but automated. Employers will upload all payroll information to "intelli-Tax" automatically, point of sale, e-commerce, even wordpress(which expanded into a life managment software called ) shops will collect and report payments.
If you live in the future, you'll still hear people talk about how 2087 is the year of consumer linux, and you'll still roll your eyes and laugh. And linux still won't get it.
Funny that you say that, it's pretty much reality in Finland. You can do taxes, apply for benefits etc. online. Not every single thing can be done online just yet, of course.
Brain waves (produced by changes in electrical current in your brain) are weak to begin with, and decrease in power in proportion to the square of the distance (1/r^2). That's why anything that reads your brain waves needs a helmet to work.
Backs away suspiciously
This seems to be one of the main pain points when it comes to outsourcing work abroad, people seem to work best and collaborate the most when they interact frequently in person. In Pixar Story, I recall Jobs saying he designed the headquarters specifically for unplanned collaboration. As much as the world changes, people remain the same.
Man, I am going to be SET!
If you live in the future, conventional information technology related skillsets will have become largely obsolete through automation resulting from advances in human computer interfaces (derived from computational linguistics and the merged fruits of ontology-oriented and iterative-generative-gist programming).
In its stead, a degree of social concern for the creation and consumption of human art and philosophy of all eras will become the primary occupation of many during their waking hours, to levels previously considered to be an impossible, utopian myth.
Ok not Herero-environments but still similar
By 2050 the population of the world is expected to grow to over 9 billion and proponents of "vertical farming" believe growing food in cities would use less land and resources than traditional outdoor methods, reduce transport costs and fossil-fuel emissions. As vertical farms start to spring up in Sweden, Vancouver and the Netherlands, Ella McSweeney investigates whether they could provide a cost-effective solution that will increase yields or if it is just another example of head in the clouds utopian thinking.
Sounds good but playback fails both on Firefox + Chrome under Linux. Torrent, someone?
So build drones that:
a) have proper sirens lights, etc
b) can fly to any street address and canvas the area visually and communicate with people on the scene
c)and be stored and launched from neighborhood automated deployment stations
(Ok an example of what not to do - far too negative)
Linux will be the leading gaming platform, so build a Linux optimized gaming engine.
Puts the saying "find something no one else wants to do and make a career out of it" in a whole new light.
Bonus Prediction: William Gibson will write a novel about garbage.
If I live in the future, I enjoy reading William Gibson™ slashfic about the heroes of my favorite mimetic Hyuman Companions and orcas.