re: What's your prediction as to the next big thing?

If I am not going to be able to own a vehicle in the future answer a few questions for me please. I don’t live in a city. I like to hunt and fish, go to the camp, need to pull boats, trailers etc. Many times I decide last minute I want to go fishing. Is there always going to be a truck available to come get my boat and pull it to the launch. Is this truck going to be able to navigate, in 4wd many times, to and from the launch? Am I going to be able to “drive” it at all or how will it know how to back up to trailer and back up properly in different launches? What about when I do yard work and cut trees etc and haul it to the burn pile? I destroy my old truck. The bed is all bent and beat up. Is there going to be old beater vehicles? What about while I am fishing? Is the vehicle going to stay at the launch hooked up to my trailer? What about hauling dead deer and hogs around? Am I going to have to wash the blood out of the truck before it goes back into the pool? I hunt 50 Miles from my house, 17 Miles of which is gravel road behind two locked gates. Am I going to have to pay for the truck for the entire weekend and if not how will the truck navigate muddy roads and through locked gates to come get me and all my stuff? Sorry for rambling but just trying to understand how lots of people are going to live their lives without being able to own a vehicle that fits their lifestyle. One of the things I read about future autonomous cars is to fully implement all vehicles would have to be driverless. Can’t mix driver / driverless on the road.

Better, smaller medical implants. Would like to see a LVD pumping system as one unit that is implanted.

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You really think people across the world want to give up the freedom of driving? Maybe in the city, but not for anyone that drives more than 20 minutes a day and likes to ride backroads on a Sunday

I do agree that it would change the lives of PI and defense attorneys because it would be an ephen cash cow. Every time an accident happens it will be Tesla’s fault, no driver error issues to attribute it to.

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The change is going to be where the money is. If a driver is employed and has to be paid wages and benefits, then the money is in creating a machine to replace him/her. Commercially successful autonomous vehicles will like start with the long-haul trucking industry where there are known routes on uncomplicated roadways. An autonomous truck doesn't have to stop for a rest, doesn't earn wages or accrue vacation. Passenger travel has a head start with autonomous taxis, but the real money is in freight hauling. This may get to rail before trucks.

This is also where battery powered vehicles make the most sense. Range is not an issue with a known, repeated route. The potential energy savings over diesel is also a driver of this technology.

Fewer accidents mean fewer lawsuits, but it will be a long time before automobile accident personal injury law dries up.

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We already cryogenically freeze some things, but humans are next. We'll start having giant storage facilities filled with people that have paid big dollars to freeze themselves until a cure for their disease is found, 100 years has passed, or their grandchildren get married, etc. As that becomes more widely spread and the tech improves, people will start freezing themselves for shorter periods and multiple times so they can live their otherwise regular lifespan over a long period of time. People will freeze themselves until the next installment in a movie trilogy comes out, or their vacation date arrives, or their dream car becomes more affordable, or some other minor instance they can't wait for. Lifespans will largely stay the same or even shorten due to all the stopping and starting of the body, but lives will be lived over centuries of pausing and resuming.

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So, you unfreeze yourself after 100 years and everyone you have ever known (except for maybe someone else frozen), is dead. (family, friends, entertainers, people who mentored you, etc.). I'm not sure if humanity could handle those issues.

I wish they had a streaming service where you can watch the national telecast of a game and have it synced with your team's radio feed. Technologically it's already doable. I just wish the Big Four leagues and the NCAA would offer it.

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Psychiatric medications that are specified to a patient’s genetic structure in order to produce less side effects and improved symptom control.

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This would be nice.

1. The thousands of alternative energy patents being sat on by the fossil fuel industry will be unleashed and we'll be well on our way to building and implementing new, sustainable, carbon-neutral power plants in 15 years' time.

2. AI will change the world as we know it. It will treat us medically, manage traffic, regulate the internet, manage VR experiences, drive our cars, secure our networks, do many of our jobs, and become a large part of our national defense apparatus....and a whole lot more.

Bidets starting to appear in public bathrooms.

Virtual reality implants so you can talk to anyone anywhere and have any virtual experience you want, with sound, feeling, vision, taste and smell, with nothing more than the imbedded device.


Also imbedded thought controlled phones. Conversations without any words.