Posted on 04/15/2017 7:53:10 AM PDT by Enchante
Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years. Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties. This disruption will create large growth opportunities as well as dangerous pitfalls. Be prepared for both....
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...It is a fast moving world and getting faster. There will be both opportunities and pitfalls along the way. The next generation of business leadership needs to be able to navigate these progressive changes and disruptive events faster and more effectively than at any time in the past. We note again that these are all extrapolations of exponential technology trends made by the Singularity University of California. Nothing here is definitive and everything is in a state of change. The purpose of a think tank is to motivate and stimulate thinking. We hope this paper helps accomplish that goal. Welcome to the Exponential Age.
(Excerpt) Read more at equitas-capital.com ...
Solar will easily surpass nuclear.
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Agree for now. Solar already has surpassed the 50 year old nuclear reactors.
imho both solar and nuclear should get plenty of R&D funding.
I think that 4th generation nuclear however can get costs eventually much lower than solar but for the next 7 years or so solar will be ahead and getting lower faster than nuclear.
This paragraph is all you have to read to know these guys are delusional. They are not factoring in human behavior...it’s as if everyone is an AI bot:
Electric cars won’t become main stream until 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. This represents a smooth doubling every two years of the amount of solar energy we’re creating, particularly as we’re now applying nanotechnology, a form of information technology, to solar panels. And we’re only eight doublings away from it meeting 100 percent of our energy needs. And there is 10 thousand times more sunlight than we need. The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies may be obsolete by 2025.”
I hope nobody is paying for this crap.
Yeah, stuff like that is definitely over the top. At least we didn’t pay for it! But I do think some of the other points are worth pondering..... and many things may happen over a longer time frame than they predict.
Why doesn’t this mechanism make the cost of health care decrease? It seems immune from this trend.
bump!
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