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“If you live in the future”

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Re: “If you live in the future”

#12
If you live in the future, garbage is gold. Garbage will be used to build business empires. Garbage will be sold, sorted, repurposed and resold in ways unimaginable, so determine what future assets you are throwing out.

Puts the saying "find something no one else wants to do and make a career out of it" in a whole new light.

Bonus Prediction: William Gibson will write a novel about garbage.

Re: “If you live in the future”

#13
If you live in the future, you know more work is and will be done by robots. However, there will be human jobs for designing and programming robots... So, start a robotics company!

Re: “If you live in the future”

#16

If you live in the future, a diagnosis of most symptoms will be done from a pinprick at home, so become a medical researcher not a GP (Ok an example of what not to do - far too negative)

If you live in the future, you'll still need to have someone whose career may be on the line if they get a diagnosis far enough wrong, so some form of human oversight of the diagnosis process is still inevitable; therefore, make it possible to reliably transmit the confidential medical information needed to make diagnoses across networks a lot more securely than we can now.

Re: “If you live in the future”

#19
If you live in the future, people will still care about classical Chinese literature (because people still care about classical Chinese literature now and it's not like Confucius lived in this millennium). So study classical Chinese, if you think it's interesting.
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