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Offline RotBaron

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the future of ?
« on: December 31, 2014, 03:54:06 AM »
I was listening to Moe Ansari yesterday and something he said bears repeating; it's a semi well kept secret and a tool some of the most successful (at their trades) use from time to time. Usually I can hardly stand much of Ansari (sales pitches, etc.) but this was good.

Hazard a guess? Everyone possesses it; many use it regularly although few in the way Ansari meant.

I'll get back to that at the end.

This time of year I try to look/learn from the past and see what the future looks like. What is even more interesting is looking back over the last two decades. Where will you twenty somethings be 20 yrs from now? What will you have done with your time? When I graduated High School we had yet to use email in school, over that summer of '94 it would become ~ necessity that incoming college freshmen correspond with their schools via email - in somewhat of a blink the world had changed (at least in my eyes). Cell phones; wealthy business people had them; our vocabulary changed a bit too see aforementioned "business people" instead of men...

So what will you make of your time? Regret not and forge ahead! Happy New Year indeed, better stated: Prospero Ano.

Ansari was speaking about wealth management strategy and the integral pieces to it that don't relate specifically to stocks/investing (here, Planning). He asked a simple question, what will it look like when you get there? I've done imagery like this before, the more specific the better. Try it on a small scale at the next task you see challenging and have some apprehension about; imagine yourself succeeding, see it, feel it, then do it; it works. Ignore or challenge negative thoughts.

Good luck if you try. I need to practice it more; not easy, but rewarding.

Ever made a vision board? I was amazed how many things from it appeared in some form or another.

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« Last Edit: December 31, 2014, 04:15:13 AM by RotBaron »
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« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2014, 03:55:32 AM »
Please don't get my thread locked off on a political tangent, the future part is not a ruse to discuss politics in any way.

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Happy New Year, stay safe.
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Re: the future of ?
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2014, 03:55:44 AM »
Sorry, what were you selling again?
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« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2014, 03:58:52 AM »
I literally understood nothing of that, but then I am hungover
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Re: the future of ?
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2014, 04:01:46 AM »
lol, hung over, what time is it there? East coast I'm hoping.

Maybe read it when you're not or don't.

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« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2014, 05:56:24 AM »
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« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2014, 06:49:17 AM »
I'm in the UK, it was very much still morning. I see sort of what your message is, you're saying we should use future projections of our ambitions, visualised specifically in our minds, in order to help make them a reality. Seems fair enough.
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« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2014, 07:07:44 AM »
If someone wants to make any ecological predictions they should see the 19th century all over again. The industrialization changed job markets in a huge way, now we're on the brink of the next revolution which is robotic manufacturing. Cheap labour jobs will be extinct in the near future because robots are getting more skilled and cheaper, beating humans in the tasks that were low income factory workers bread and butter previously.

This will also mean crumbling of the Chinese economy, human labour can't compete with automated fabrication even with Chinese salaries. It will be once again cheaper and more efficient to manufacture products closer to the consumers.
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« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2014, 08:41:31 AM »
If someone wants to make any ecological predictions they should see the 19th century all over again. The industrialization changed job markets in a huge way, now we're on the brink of the next revolution which is robotic manufacturing. Cheap labour jobs will be extinct in the near future because robots are getting more skilled and cheaper, beating humans in the tasks that were low income factory workers bread and butter previously.

This will also mean crumbling of the Chinese economy, human labour can't compete with automated fabrication even with Chinese salaries. It will be once again cheaper and more efficient to manufacture products closer to the consumers.

What will the consumers be doing for a job
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« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2014, 09:19:31 AM »
What will the consumers be doing for a job

nothing, they will be fed poor quality synthetic nutrition, brainwashed into pursuing unfulfilling hobbies and kept in a permanent state of lethargy and ill health to avoid any chance of them rebelling.


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« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2014, 09:30:34 AM »
nothing, they will be fed poor quality synthetic nutrition, brainwashed into pursuing unfulfilling hobbies and kept in a permanent state of lethargy and ill health to avoid any chance of them rebelling.




Hey, as lethargic as I am, my hobbies are VERY fulfilling!

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« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2014, 09:45:24 AM »
Hey, as lethargic as I am, my hobbies are VERY fulfilling!

You are one of the free thinkers mate. And it's not the future yet, it's what's coming that I see.
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« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2014, 10:25:41 AM »
You are one of the free thinkers mate. And it's not the future yet, it's what's coming that I see.

All joking aside, I am honestly terrified to look toward the future. By the standards of my parents' generation, I am lazy, not very hard working, and only moderately intelligent. When I can go out into public and impress people compared to my contemporaries, that SCARES me, because it means we're accepting mediocrity and praising even the slightest step above the bare minimum.

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« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2014, 10:27:56 AM »
What will the consumers be doing for a job

Exactly. What did the farmers and handy-men do for a job when mass production started? They either reinvented themselves or went starving.
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« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2014, 10:50:19 AM »
Never needed to envision my future Hollywood looked 30 years in the future for me when I was 21.    Flying Delorian's and cars.  Hover boards, self drying clothing, self adjusting footware and the "Café 80's" chain of restaurants.   Now what is really funny....MIAMI NOW HAS A BASEBALL TEAM!   So they got that one right.

"A computer in every home." - Bill Gates 1980.    Now THAT is visionary....the cost of computer in the 80's was astronomical compared to today.  Now people have multiple computers....not just one.  This is one of the reasons I jumped into Computer Science in 1982....I believed it was the future...everyone said it would be a Fad but I saw huge potential...and I could write video games like DEFENDER!  Never wrote a single game...but am doing some COOL SH*T with them today. :-)

"Apple computers?!?! - 1984"   Many said:" They'll never make it."   And they almost didn't but they managed a comeback a BIG ONE!

Albums -> Reel-2-Reel -> 8-Track -> Cassette -> Walkman -> CD -> DiscMan -> MP3 -> IPod -> EVERYTHING IS ON MY PHONE!
                                                                    \-> BoomBox -> EXTINCTION                               /
Phone ----------------------------->Cordless Phone----------->Mobile Phone------>cell phone------>/

As for the future......

         Bionic limbs (1976 Bionic Man)  are real and will get better as they integrate them directly into nerves and eventually the spinal column and brain.
 
         Children WILL have geolocation tracking chips put into them at birth as a "safety" feature.  

         Gasoline engines will be outlawed for use by the general population especially those in Cities.  Rural populations will have to pay a huge TAX in order to keep their archaic machines....again in the guise of Environmental Safety and Earth consciousness.  However, the Lithium mining and improper disposal methods will lead to more deaths and environmental dangers than Lead or CO could ever create.  

          Self flying commercial aircraft will become a reality.  Since 99% of all air-accidents have been ruled "Pilot Error" for Safety reasons...pilots will be removed from the controls and computers will be put in their place.

          Then there is SKYNET....but hey....drones and computers are kewl so we will leave that one alone :-)