What industry represents "The Future"?
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June 28th, 2015
In the late 19th Century, one can see that it was oil, railroads, steel or all of these.
In the 20th century it was automobiles, nuclear (or not), semiconductors.
What is the next big entrepreneurial opportunity that will produce the 21st century version of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt etc.
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Err… computing, smart phones, wireless network?
“plastics” – - – The Graduate 1967
3D printed fabrication
Desalination
Anything to do with gathering, storing, and transporting water.
Commercial spaceflight (despite today’s SpaceX rocket launch explosion)
Firearms and other weapons of war.
Zombie elimination. The Walkers are coming. Either that or craft brewing and hop growing.
Rubber cars, crashing can be fun.
I think the porn industry will continue to be at the cutting edge of various fields with spin-off technology helping general computing. Before you laugh, answer these questions;
1) What was one of the main things that led to a consumer demand for the internet, something previously only used by the military, scientists, and universities? Sure, you can make all sorts of arguments, but figures don’t lie; the Internet we have today started for the purpose of people the embarrassment of wandering over to “that section” of the magazine rack and taking their purchase to the register.
2) Who led the way to streaming video over the internet?
3) Who came up with and refined the idea of using credit cards to make purchases, paving the way for e-commerce as we know it?
4) What industry puts so many images and videos on the internet that it leads to technologies to increase bandwidth just to keep up?
That’s just what they’ve done for computing in the last few years, never mind what they did for home video in the pre-internet days with things like Super-8 cameras and VHS. And don’t think that VR and haptic feedback technology are purely platonic either.
@jerv
It’s in Social, and that is by design. It’s fun to have fun. But what you and others are talking about is already established. The visionaries have made their impact and their millions.
I am talking about the next big thing.
Like robotics for example.
Or zombie elimination.
@jerv When will we have 3D porn?
@josie And I’m saying that they will be behind the next big thing as well, most likely in the field of robotics, though possibly body alteration; I’m sure that there are furries out there who wish their fur were a part of their body rather than just a costume.
As for fun, some of us have odd senses of humor.
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