> We live in a state of anxiety without a path to financial independence. The path to creating wealth from last century no longer applies. The path to reimagining search begins with helping people to understand their money. The first step starts with delivering insights into the stories that data can tell.
Not sure what financial independence has to do with search results? I’m not actually sure those sentences really mean anything at all...
As Marx said, you need to own the means of production. The beautiful thing about capitalism is that the means of production are for sale on the stock market.
Long term transaction data and browsing history could be used to train a federated learning algorithm to generate search results.
Getting access to that data to understand what stories it can tell is difficult ask without offering a lot of value in return.
In the short term I believe providing insights into a persons finances is the way to provide that value.
E.g. if you have an extra $5k how do your circumstances change if you - pay off student debt - pay extra on your mortgage - buy solar - contribute to your 401k / retirement savings
or showing how changes in spending alters the amount of pretax money you need to earn to support your lifestyle.
or how does your spending compare to people like you?
Since WW2 we have enjoyed the longest ever period without direct conflict between great powers. How much longer can we expect this to last?
We are as close as ever to nuclear war according to the doomsday clock, just two minutes to midnight.
+ Moon & Mars colonization
+ Touch-screen TVs
+ consumer computing moves to Google Glass
+ VR
+ Universal currency (BitCoin et al.)
+ Flying Cars
+ Cars that can run on Land & Water
+ Household Garbage to electricity converter
+ Everything runs on Solar power
+ Doomsday
+ AGI
+ Self driving cars
+ Holographic displays(like in movies)
+ No. 5 from the article
+ Biomed breakthroughs (aka Theranos)
These are from various sources I have read. Interestingly, most rely heavily on trending topics/techs of the time predictions were being made without accounting for how tech & field suddenly changes, such as Theranos and blockchain. :)
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you don't have to trust any party as to the authenticity of the data as you can see every change that has been made.
I wrote about the supply chain use case here https://medium.com/twohands/lobsters-on-the-blockchain-df599...
and how I approach looking at distributed ledger tech here https://medium.com/@ben_longstaff/my-framework-for-how-to-lo...
:)
I'm sorry but even my machine learning crystal ball forecasting an incoming tech crash in this decade is more accurate than the majority of these nonsensical 'predictions'.
I suspect several smart people are working on it and the challenges are many, but eventually, we will get there.
It's not 'competition' that people are afraid of, it is unfair government intervention and tariffs. The idea with Trump's trade wars is that if a country imposes tariff's on US goods, the US will respond in kind until those tariff's are removed and fair competition is restored. Whether or not this is actually happening in practice is another story, but to say nationalists are afraid of competition misses the mark.
People aren't afraid of that either, they are afraid of the rise in cost of living compared to the tepid rise of their wages.
Also, nobody ever complained about decades until just this year, because it's obviously wrong. I don't even remember it in 2010. I think it's a bunch of kids who vaguely remember the 21st century starting in 2001 (which is correct, of course) but never realized the reason, and are having hypercorrection issues now that they're older.
But nobody refers to decades as the nth decade. We in fact refer to them by their leading digit. So no, it’s the 20s again.
