It is really hard when people you talk to can't see the future. It feels like you are talking to a wall. You question yourself if you are dumb if you are not smart as you think you are for seeing the future. If your visions of the future and the trajectory of current events are just plain wrong.
I had many moments like this in my life. People around me just couldn't see the future I saw and now that I know the future I saw was true. I was not dumber or smarter than them, I just wasn't blind.
It of course started with Bitcoin, when you are some 15-year-old teenager nobody gives a shit about your magic internet money. When you tell your friends and parents that they should invest in it. You just get laughed at. The moment I started learning about Bitcoin, I knew it would become a game changer and now it is a game changer.
Then, my attention was taken up by AI in 2015. There were important published papers a couple of years back, and deep learning was on the rise I was following along. A year later I found myself at a table with my father and some other people we know, discussing the future and AI. I told them by the mid-2020s AI will be capable of doing most stuff. They laughed and told me no such thing was going to happen. Now we are getting close to the mid-2020s and AI is awfully close to what I told them back then.
Admittingly, I was also wrong. Just like many other people, I thought stuff like art and programming was going to be the last things to be done by AI. Well, AI is now doing them. In my defence, I thought robotics will be close to AI development and not lag behind. But well my predictions still have time to come true, and robotics might explode in development to catch up to AI.
Before closing my thoughts I want to talk about the future now. I see many people that don't believe they are going to live till the 2100s or beyond. If you are not a 60-year-old now. The chance of you living till the 2100s or beyond increases exponentially. Longevity research is picking up steam, and new tools to eliminate diseases and genetic defects are becoming available at an increased rate. Technology and research is a process that feeds itself. More technological advances we get, we also get an increased rate of research. And the more increased rate of research we get, the more technological advances we get.
Don't be blind to the future.
Don’t believe in the medical innovations and technology to benefit regular people, because it won’t. It’s reserved for the rich people to keep going, the ones that are probably better if they don’t live a lot longer and don’t push their crazy stuff on people. Look at how the last 2-3 years went. The common people were all forced to undergo an intervention many didn’t want and the majority of the most powerful did not participate. That should tell us where that’s going.
It is good to have some ideas of what trends will be popular. As you see it now, what’s the next trend since you’re an oracle? Lol! It would be cool to get on the right side of it now :D
Well, you are doing what my father and co did back then; dismissing my ideas.
But it is no biggie, we can laugh about how you were wrong about it in 20 years :)
I've seen first hand the abysmal failure that the medical system is and it only benefits those with money.
What do you foresee coming next? Was it the medical stuff here?
You know there are countries in this world where you don't go bankrupt from an ambulance ride. But I know it is hard to imagine that there are counties besides the US.
Well if you're referring to things like CRISPR, I have considerable doubts on the ability of that to do something beneficial that doesn’t cause wild unintended consequences.
As for longevity though, with the nutrition and clean water (relatively for sure) that we have today, absolutely people will be living longer. I think a lot more people may end up in their 100’s and 110’s than we might think. I saw something the other day of a Japanese guy at 87 surfing!
We have better technologies than CRISPR today, which is much more precise when editing genes.
New clinical trials are starting for Brain Simulations that will help treat diseases like seizures, and if they are successful there, they will help treat other neurological diseases like Parkinson's etc.
New clinical trials for targeted cancer treatments.
Longevity and ageing research are picking up steam, and one of the foci is ageing-related diseases.
I like the fact that all these innovations are advantageous to the medical/ health sector too. Many people would love the technology if it actually plays out well and if it is also affordable. Someone that the average human can also afford.
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