Unless you live in the past, reminiscing old times, memories of happy moments and years gone by you likely are highly staked on the future. I for one as a 35-year-old, with a young son, feel my chips are all on green.
So, the big question in this weird, for many lonely and depressing time, ‘What does the future look like’. We’re told we’re heading into an economic depression but it seems everything is always on a thread and half-truths are the only truth.
As I make my predictions and reveal my direction, please let me first openly disclose (if you do not already know) I’m a marketer, a creative and character to the people around me but really just an introvert who loves to think.
Where I am going with disclosing that is to explain that I’m not an economist, a financial advisor, a scientist, mathematician or even a time-travelling alien for that note. I purely ponder and speculate by way of best aligning myself with a future that sees me and my family happy. I do this also by way of articulation, oddly I feel some sense of relief by outwardly putting my vision out there. Sometimes by preparing for the worst you can find comfort in the middle. If this resonates for anyone reading please share it and or like.
The world is becoming more authoritarian, the world might seem hugely of opinion and protest, but this is ‘the now’. The imagery and narrative of today is setting up ‘the close’ of tomorrow. Ironically, many movements created by freedom of speech only result in enforcing further government sympathetic solutions.
However, while I see this happening, us moving toward a world with more defined lines, less movement, more technology, more intelligence, I believe its needed.
The fact is, every day we advance further in the fields of technology, artificial intelligence, automation and higher productivity and efficiency. We are due to step into a time that in the not too distance future sees a lot of workforce redundant, not by a virus however but by a new revolution. Imagen autonomous taxis, for example. Much like how the industrial revolution made workforce irrelevant to a machines, I see a world with fewer pen pushers, less middle management, fewer people to people based roles. New positions will open up of course, but while innovation will thrive smaller businesses and some sectors will die completely favouring large government-backed corporations.
That’s not the only I believe imminent change, money as we know will change from paper and coins but to digital, and this movement is already upon us with bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies looking to replace the fiat money in circulation. Governments printing more money to bridge the gap of recession (creating inflation) this will eventually need to be reset and there may well be a big ‘Switch over’ to basing new geographic digital currencies on already established cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
All this change might seem scary but there are many huge innovations ahead like colonising other planets, which today sound like a sci-fi film but it’s in our future. And bettering the world we live in, as we move toward being greener with our energy sources our use of plastics even to the way we eat, with lab-grown meat. Biohacking will become more popular as people understand themselves better using their DNA to live their lives in more aligned fashions. Eating food that is more genetically approved personally. Social media albeit hugely popular especially for virtual reality gaming will be more policed and media will define them self’s further to fewer major media outlets, due to the over-saturation of online media that will grow.
Lots of the wealthy individuals and companies will invest into Africa, eastern Europe and economically growing areas not currently major hubs and population will spread out more.
So with all these ideas and predictions what’s my thought process in how to adapt, what advice do I offer for what its worth to myself and my friends and family?
Firstly, embrace change, while it feels scary, we are moving is a positive way. There will always be a place for artistic expression and hard work to move through the classes, while capitalism won’t be as strong you will find it at the top and in the cutting-edge areas like technology, healthcare and space exploration.
Secondly do not change what you do, it’s still apart of today, while its place might not be in the future, adapting to change will keep you relevant but time and change is inevitable.
Education will keep you relevant. While it’s true in the very distant future we will be even fewer workers and more consumers, paid by a digital monitory system in the most part to consume, and rewarded as such, by keeping interested and having stakes in the future you will have more impact relevance and ownership.
What does it mean to the here and now? Grow! If you are a small business aim bigger, if you are a medium-size company think large, carve out a place for your business and innovate as change comes. Embrace AI, technology, and data use, but keep personal with your clients and grow stronger more personal connections, because as we head to the future things will get less personal and so client relationship will mean so much more.
The good news is we are evolving, albeit, in a new way, one thing we do well as a human species is adapt and thrive. With ever-growing technology and healthcare advances we live it feels a million miles away from ‘only the strongest survive’, BUT it will be the strong that dominate the future.
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