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“100 on the dash get me close to God, we don’t pray for love, we just pray for cars.” -Some random song.
“I ain’t able to go fast, but I’m gonna look cool as hell try’n tu” -HyperLoop.
Hey dear Lego community,
It is time again to show you my 5th creation for season 3 of the disney+ series THE MANDALORIAN. First I have to say that chapter 22 wasn't my favourite chapter so it was a little bit hard to find something I want to build. Hopefully I choose a scene which you also like:
Bo-Katan Kryze, Din Djarin, and Grogu travel on Kryze's Gauntlet starfighter to the idyllic planet Plazir-15, which is covered in Mandalorian-style domes. [...]
The hyperloop pod brings them to a banquet hosted by Plazir-15's rulers, Captain Bombardier and the Duchess, who are joined by several aliens including Biths, Rodians, Sullustans, and an Ithorian.They explain that they have a problem with malfunctioning reprogrammed Imperial droids, who have caused traffic accidents, heavy equipment failures, and assaults. Bombardier offers to extend formal diplomatic recognition to Mandalore in exchange for Kryze's help. The two travel to the loading docks where repurposed B2 battle droids are loading boxes of cargo. Djarin alludes to his past encounter with droids. [...] To test the foreman's theory, Djarin tangles with several B2 loading droids. Most ignore him until Djarin knocks the crate out of the hands of one. The B2 battle droid pushes Djarin aside and runs away with the Mandalorians in pursuit.
The Mandalorians dodge the object and continue their pursuit through a bar. Djarin corners the droid by jumping out of a window and landing on it. Kryze shoots the droid with her blasters. [...]
My small vignette shows exactly the end of the pursuit with the destroyed Super battle droid on the floor, after Mando jumed throgh the window and Hit him hard.
Please share your opinion about my work in the comments below, see you for the next one 😌
Greetings Kevin
Elon Musk was spectacular as the closing TED 2017 interview this morning.
Here is the video and a summary rom the TED Blog:
Why are you boring?
“We’re trying to dig a hole under LA, and this is to create the beginning of what will be a 3D network of tunnels to alleviate congestion,” Musk says, describing the work of his new project, The Boring Company. Musk shows a video of what this system could look like, with an electric car-skate attached to an elevator from street level that brings your car vertically underground into a tunnel. There’s no speed limit in the tunnel — and the car-skates are being designed to achieve speeds of 200 km/h, or about 130 mph. “You should be able to get from Westwood to LAX in 5-6 minutes,” Musk says.
Why aren’t flying cars a better solution?
“I do rockets, so I like things that fly,” Musk says. “There’s a challenge of flying cars in that they’ll be quite noisy. If something’s flying over your head, a whole bunch of flying cars going all over the place, that is not an anxiety-reducing situation … You’ll be thinking, ‘Did they service their hubcap, or is it going to come off and guillotine me?'”
How will these tunnels tie in with Hyperloop?
The Hyperloop test track is the second biggest vacuum chamber in the world, smaller only than the Large Hadron Collider, Musk says. The proposed transportation system would propel people and freight in pod-like vehicles in a vacuum, and tunnels end up being great for creating vacuum. “We’re cautiously optimistic that it’ll be faster than the world’s fastest bullet train, even over a .8-mile stretch,” Musk says of Hyperloop.
What’s happening at Tesla?
Tesla Model 3 is coming in July, Musk says, and it’ll have a special feature: autopilot. Using only passive optical cameras and GPS, no LIDAR, the Model 3 will be capable of autonomous driving. “Once you solve cameras for vision, autonomy is solved; if you don’t solve vision, it’s not solved … You can absolutely be superhuman with just cameras.”
Musk says that Tesla is on track for completing a fully autonomous, cross-country LA to New York trip by the end of 2017. “November or December of this year, we should be able to go from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York, no controls touched at any point during the entire journey,” Musk says.
More news from Tesla: a semi truck, which Musk reveals with a teaser photo. It’s a heavy-duty, long-range semi meant to alleviate heavy-duty trucking. “With the Tesla Semi, we want to show that an electric truck actually can out-torque any diesel semi. If you had a tug of war competition, the Tesla Semi will tug the diesel semi uphill,” Musk says. And it’s nimble — it can be driven around “like a sports car,” he says.
What else is going electric?
Showing a concept photo of a house with a Tesla in the driveway, Powerwalls on the side of the house and a solar glass roof, Musk talks about his vision for the home of the future. Most houses in the US, he says, have enough roof area for solar panels to power all the needs of the house. “Eventually almost all houses will have a solar roof,” he says. “Fast forward 15 years from now, it’ll be unusual to have a roof that doesn’t have solar.”
And to store all that electricity needed to power our homes and cars, Musk has made a huge bet on lithium-ion batteries. Moving on to a discussion of the Gigafactory, a massive diamond-shaped lithium-ion battery factory near Sparks, Nevada, Musk talks about how power will be stored in the future.
“When it’s running full speed, you can’t see the cells without a strobe light,” Musk says as a video of the factory pumping out Li-ion batteries plays behind him. Musk thinks we’ll need about 100 such factories to power the world in a future where we don’t feel guilty about using and producing energy, and Tesla plans to announce locations for another four Gigafactories late this year. “We need to address a global market,” Musk says, hinting that the new factories will be spread out across the world.
Let’s talk SpaceX.
At TED2013, Musk talked about his dream of building reusable rockets — a dream he’s seen realized with the success of the Falcon 9, which to date has had nine successful launches and landings. Earlier this year, a used rocket completed a second successful mission and landing for the first time in history. “It’s the first reflight of an old booster where that reflight is relevant,” Musk says. “Reusability is only relevant if it is rapid and complete, like an aircraft or a car … You don’t send your aircraft into Boeing in between flights.”
What about Mars?
Showing plans for a massive rocket that’s the size of a 40-story building, Musk talks about what it’ll take to get to Mars. “The thrust level for this configuration is about four times the thrust of a Saturn V moon rocket,” the biggest rocket humanity has ever created, he says. “In units of 747s, this would be the thrust equivalent of 120 747s with all engines blazing.” The rocket is so massive that it could take a fully-loaded 747 as cargo. While it may seem large now, “future spacecraft will make this look like a rowboat,” Musk says.
And when can we can hope to see it? Musk thinks the Interplanetary Transport System SpaceX revealed earlier this year will take 8-10 years to build. “Our internal targets are more aggressive,” he says.
“There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing,” Musk says.
But why work on projects like getting to Mars when we have so many problems here on Earth?
Sustainable energy will happen no matter what, out of necessity, Musk says. “If you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy … The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur,” he says.
But becoming a multi-planet species isn’t inevitable. “If you look at the progress in space, in 1969 we were able to send somebody to the moon. Then we had the space shuttle, which could only take people to low-Earth orbit. Now we take no one to orbit. That’s the trend — it’s down to nothing. We’re mistaken when we think technology automatically improves. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better.”
What’s your motivation?
“The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question,” Musk says, “But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
She used to be a famous athlete and a mother. In another life, before the hyperloop crash, six years ago.
She was rescued and given new legs by the all-powerful Kirkland corporation. Their investigation indicated that cyber-terrorists targeted the IA that ran the European hyperloop system and caused the crash. They said she could join their security forces, and avenge her family.
So Helena began chasing criminals, her Tālāria legs allowing her to run faster and jump higher than ever before. She wasn't sure of what she was exactly, between a cop and a mercenary, but she was good at what she did. She almost enjoyed it.
But she never found those responsible for her accident. Until last week, when she discovered the truth : there were no cyber-terrorists, it was just a story they made up to cover the malfunction of their IA and give her motivation to use her to do their dirty work. Kirkland corporation is the real responsible of the loss of her family. How do you fight the most powerful company in the world ?
She used to be a famous athlete and a mother. In another life, before the hyperloop crash, six years ago.
She was rescued and given new legs by the all-powerful Kirkland corporation. Their investigation indicated that cyber-terrorists targeted the IA that ran the European hyperloop system and caused the crash. They said she could join their security forces, and avenge her family.
So Helena began chasing criminals, her Tālāria legs allowing her to run faster and jump higher than ever before. She wasn't sure of what she was exactly, between a cop and a mercenary, but she was good at what she did. She almost enjoyed it.
But she never found those responsible for her accident. Until last week, when she discovered the truth : there were no cyber-terrorists, it was just a story they made up to cover the malfunction of their IA and give her motivation to use her to do their dirty work. Kirkland corporation is the real responsible of the loss of her family. How do you fight the most powerful company in the world ?
Elon Musk was spectacular as the closing TED 2017 interview this morning.
Here is the video and a summary rom the TED Blog:
Why are you boring?
“We’re trying to dig a hole under LA, and this is to create the beginning of what will be a 3D network of tunnels to alleviate congestion,” Musk says, describing the work of his new project, The Boring Company. Musk shows a video of what this system could look like, with an electric car-skate attached to an elevator from street level that brings your car vertically underground into a tunnel. There’s no speed limit in the tunnel — and the car-skates are being designed to achieve speeds of 200 km/h, or about 130 mph. “You should be able to get from Westwood to LAX in 5-6 minutes,” Musk says.
Why aren’t flying cars a better solution?
“I do rockets, so I like things that fly,” Musk says. “There’s a challenge of flying cars in that they’ll be quite noisy. If something’s flying over your head, a whole bunch of flying cars going all over the place, that is not an anxiety-reducing situation … You’ll be thinking, ‘Did they service their hubcap, or is it going to come off and guillotine me?'”
How will these tunnels tie in with Hyperloop?
The Hyperloop test track is the second biggest vacuum chamber in the world, smaller only than the Large Hadron Collider, Musk says. The proposed transportation system would propel people and freight in pod-like vehicles in a vacuum, and tunnels end up being great for creating vacuum. “We’re cautiously optimistic that it’ll be faster than the world’s fastest bullet train, even over a .8-mile stretch,” Musk says of Hyperloop.
What’s happening at Tesla?
Tesla Model 3 is coming in July, Musk says, and it’ll have a special feature: autopilot. Using only passive optical cameras and GPS, no LIDAR, the Model 3 will be capable of autonomous driving. “Once you solve cameras for vision, autonomy is solved; if you don’t solve vision, it’s not solved … You can absolutely be superhuman with just cameras.”
Musk says that Tesla is on track for completing a fully autonomous, cross-country LA to New York trip by the end of 2017. “November or December of this year, we should be able to go from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York, no controls touched at any point during the entire journey,” Musk says.
More news from Tesla: a semi truck, which Musk reveals with a teaser photo. It’s a heavy-duty, long-range semi meant to alleviate heavy-duty trucking. “With the Tesla Semi, we want to show that an electric truck actually can out-torque any diesel semi. If you had a tug of war competition, the Tesla Semi will tug the diesel semi uphill,” Musk says. And it’s nimble — it can be driven around “like a sports car,” he says.
What else is going electric?
Showing a concept photo of a house with a Tesla in the driveway, Powerwalls on the side of the house and a solar glass roof, Musk talks about his vision for the home of the future. Most houses in the US, he says, have enough roof area for solar panels to power all the needs of the house. “Eventually almost all houses will have a solar roof,” he says. “Fast forward 15 years from now, it’ll be unusual to have a roof that doesn’t have solar.”
And to store all that electricity needed to power our homes and cars, Musk has made a huge bet on lithium-ion batteries. Moving on to a discussion of the Gigafactory, a massive diamond-shaped lithium-ion battery factory near Sparks, Nevada, Musk talks about how power will be stored in the future.
“When it’s running full speed, you can’t see the cells without a strobe light,” Musk says as a video of the factory pumping out Li-ion batteries plays behind him. Musk thinks we’ll need about 100 such factories to power the world in a future where we don’t feel guilty about using and producing energy, and Tesla plans to announce locations for another four Gigafactories late this year. “We need to address a global market,” Musk says, hinting that the new factories will be spread out across the world.
Let’s talk SpaceX.
At TED2013, Musk talked about his dream of building reusable rockets — a dream he’s seen realized with the success of the Falcon 9, which to date has had nine successful launches and landings. Earlier this year, a used rocket completed a second successful mission and landing for the first time in history. “It’s the first reflight of an old booster where that reflight is relevant,” Musk says. “Reusability is only relevant if it is rapid and complete, like an aircraft or a car … You don’t send your aircraft into Boeing in between flights.”
What about Mars?
Showing plans for a massive rocket that’s the size of a 40-story building, Musk talks about what it’ll take to get to Mars. “The thrust level for this configuration is about four times the thrust of a Saturn V moon rocket,” the biggest rocket humanity has ever created, he says. “In units of 747s, this would be the thrust equivalent of 120 747s with all engines blazing.” The rocket is so massive that it could take a fully-loaded 747 as cargo. While it may seem large now, “future spacecraft will make this look like a rowboat,” Musk says.
And when can we can hope to see it? Musk thinks the Interplanetary Transport System SpaceX revealed earlier this year will take 8-10 years to build. “Our internal targets are more aggressive,” he says.
“There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing,” Musk says.
But why work on projects like getting to Mars when we have so many problems here on Earth?
Sustainable energy will happen no matter what, out of necessity, Musk says. “If you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy … The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur,” he says.
But becoming a multi-planet species isn’t inevitable. “If you look at the progress in space, in 1969 we were able to send somebody to the moon. Then we had the space shuttle, which could only take people to low-Earth orbit. Now we take no one to orbit. That’s the trend — it’s down to nothing. We’re mistaken when we think technology automatically improves. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better.”
What’s your motivation?
“The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question,” Musk says, “But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
Michael Flaskey
CEO, Diamond Resorts
Glenn Fogel
CEO, Booking Holdings
Carol Massar
Co-Anchor, Bloomberg Businessweek TV and Radio
Josh Giegel
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Virgin Hyperloop One
Caryn Seidman-Becker
Chairman and CEO, CLEAR
Rob Wiesenthal
Founder and CEO, Blade
Glenn Fogel
CEO, Booking Holdings
Carol Massar
Co-Anchor, Bloomberg Businessweek TV and Radio
Josh Giegel
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Virgin Hyperloop One
Hyperloop, a project that could change the way we travel, just got one more step closer to reality.
Say goodbye to Hyperloop Technologies Inc., one of two LA-based startups working to realize Elon Musk’s dream of super-fast, tube-based transportation. The company announced today that it ...
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This building is on South Third Street in Quincy, Illinois in Adams County in the United States. Up until a few weeks ago it said, M SKS SAVE LIVES.
Hyperloop One projesi ile ilgili yapılan ilk testlerde 640 km hıza kadar ulaşılırken, ilk test sorunsuz bir şekilde gerçekleştirildi.
taiwan is a tiny country but has a robust rail system.
there is a high speed rail, like the one we are trying to build here in california but got stuck in politics and finance, and losing ground to the hyperloop.
there is the "limited express" which is the train in photo, that stops at all the major cities. runs fastest. hard to get a ticket on moment's notice, usually need to reserve in advance because fare is affordable and efficient.
there is the regular "express" that stops at major cities and large townships. runs slower and stops more, but still very fast. kind of like our "coast starlight" or "pacific surfliner" that travesl to and fro urban centers.
the last tier is the "regional train", that runs much slower, stops at small rural single platform stations, and travels shorter distances, can almost double as mass transit for neighborhoods that don't have them. sort of like our metrolink that travels within one giant urban area and surrounding suburbs.
I saw one of Elon Musk's crap trucks driving through Villa Park the other day, and I feel compelled to take a picture every time I see one just to commemorate the stupidity of it. You know, they say now that the side panels have been flying off these things on the road, and that you can pull those cheap plastic fenders off with your bare hands. The stainless steel rusts if you don't clean it every day, but you can't get them wet without destroying the battery. Water collects in the button that operates the trunk cover and shorts it out so you can't open it, but that's okay because raccoons can easily chew through it. The interior door panels pop off if you slam the doors, but if you have a wreck and the battery explodes, the doors automatically lock and trap you inside unbreakable glass. They're crap cars, which makes sense, because everything Elon Musk touches is crap. You can follow the trail of it. Pay-Pal ... Tesla ... Twitter ... the Federal Government of the United States of America ...
There was recently a small hubbub about that on Robin's Facebook page, when people who often post political stuff got mad because Robin posted political stuff. (This is not an uncommon reaction.) Robin posted something about Musk's wild and slash-and-burn rampage through government agencies he knows nothing about and has no actual legal authority to affect, and the Facebook reaction was eye rolling. "Do you honestly think they are not consulting on these things?" one of them said. "Do you really think they are so absolutely stupid that they are just arbitrarily doing things?"
The answer is, of course, an emphatic yes, and everything in Musk's history proves it. That truck up there serves as a microcosm of his entire career. Dude comes up with a dumb idea, does absolutely no research to figure out how to make the idea, rushes some half-ass version of it to market with almost no testing to see if it works, and dares anybody to call him on it. His motto is "move fast and break things," and he doesn't care what gets broken or how costly it is to fix. He just likes blowing shit up for no reason, and then running around some stage somewhere with a chainsaw looking like a dumbass.
I've been ranting about the guy for more than a decade, and I've seen this kind of thing from him time after time. People think he's some supergenius because he made a lot of money, but none of his cash came from anything inside his own brain. The seed of his wealth came from his dad's blood emeralds (though he denies that now), which he used to buy ideas off other people. He's never invented anything. He bought Pay-Pal, then used Pay-Pal money to buy Tesla, then used Tesla money to buy SpaceX and Twitter and the presidency. (I'd say he bought Donald Trump, but he only rents Trump from Vladimir Putin.) He came up with none of that on his own, and his only real skill has been convincing people that he did. He has been masterful at marketing himself as some once-in-a-lifetime beautiful mind, but everything he ever says is some of the dumbest shit you'll ever hear. I've seen it said that he's what stupid people assume a smart guy would be, and that's the most apt description of him I've ever heard.
I first remember hearing about him early in the Tesla era, when he got all the techies excited with talk of robot cars. I tend to be skeptical of anything that gets techies excited, so I rolled my eyes, made a few disparaging comments on the internet (starting around 2012 or so -- that's how long I've been onto the guy), and mostly ignored him. What really caught my attention was when he started talking about this idea of his called a "hyperloop," some kind of Star Trek train running through vacuum tubes at a thousand miles an hour that would supposedly get you from New York to Washington in 20 minutes. The concept is absurd for any number of reasons that should be obvious to anyone with even a little knowledge of the current state of physics and engineering -- "how you gonna maintain a vacuum in a tube a thousand miles long?" was one of many questions I frequently asked on the boards -- but Musk fans are very gullible, and they ate it all up. They attacked anybody who questioned the man with religious zeal and ignored every failure, every missed deadline or forgotten promise. According to Musk's acolytes circa 2015, the roads would be full of fully autonomous robot cars by 2020. Musk promised that his rockets would carry people on trips out past the Moon by 2018. He promised to have a hyperloop up and running between downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport before the mayor two mayors ago left office.
That last one is a perfect example of one time when Musk's lack of knowledge or expertise in ... um, anything was made very obvious to me. Musk came Chicago in about 2017 with this scheme to build a hyperloop tunnel that would let people ride robot pods to O'Hare from downtown in about 20 minutes. I got curious about his tunnel technology (mostly for an internet argument), so I took a look at his tunneling company's web site to see what it had to say about drilling through glacial sedimentary geology like you find around Chicago versus the types of rock he'd have to drill in places like Los Angeles or Las Vegas. There was a question in the FAQ section about the safety of tunnels in earthquakes, and while the exact quote has long vanished from the internet, the gist of it was, "Tunnels are perfectly safe during earthquakes, because it's the ground that moves, so the tunnel just moves with the ground! People inside tunnels barely notice!" Which is among the dumbest things I've ever read. The idea he had in his head was that the entire ground moves as a unit, like a giant block of solid concrete, I guess, because he'd never heard of compression or shearing. It's a baby's understanding of earthquakes, something you might see on a cartoon. And of course, he's a genius, so he never thought to check with a geologist on that. He was talking about running a vacuum tube from Los Angeles to Las Vegas at time, and I thought about how he'd have to run that across the San Andreas Fault, and how that fault had slipped 16 feet along a stretch north of San Francisco in 1906. You're going to notice 16 feet of lateral movement in a tunnel cutting across a fault, especially if you're in a space pod traveling at a thousand miles an hour.
I made a post on the Facebook back in 2018 that said, "Though the competition is fierce, I believe the worst human currently alive is Elon Musk." I stand by that statement. Donald Trump is a horrible waste of human flesh, but he's little more than a puppet these days. Elon Musk is doing this crap because he wants to, hoping to remake the world into whatever screwy vision he has in his brain. He knows how nothing works and has no interest in learning. He just wants to blow everything up, and anybody who falls for his shit gets what they deserve.
The video of our discussion is now online, part of the Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award last night at Stanford.
He left his family in South Africa as a teenager, determined to get to America:
“The United States is the distillation of the human spirit of exploration.”
Press summary by the Dish.
Hyperloop One is reinventing transportation to eliminate barriers of time and distance by using Hyperloop transport to move cargo and passengers immediately, safely, efficiently, and sustainably. More details here: hyperloop-one.com/
A far superior ride than the rigid two axle Pacer. The tower in the distance is the former power station for Brunel's Atmospheric Railway (1846-8) an idea not unlike the current hyperloop proposal
Superfast mass public transport such as so-called 'hyperloop' trains, could be the future of your commute.
BACKGROUND
On 5 October 2017 Vodafone announced a significant evolution of its brand positioning strategy, strapline and visual identity worldwide – the first changes to one of the world's best-known brands since the introduction of the 'Power to you' strapline in 2009.
The strategy – implemented across all 36 countries in which the Vodafone brand is present – is designed to underline Vodafone’s belief that new technologies and digital services will play a positive role in transforming society and enhancing individual quality of life over the years ahead.
Vodafone’s brand positioning strategy focuses on the theme of optimism about the future, using the new strapline, "The future is exciting. Ready?".
2016’da testleri başlayacak olan Hyperloop diğer adıyla Ultra Hızlı Tren teknolojisi, açıklandığı günden itibaren yoğun ilgiye maruz kalıyor. 6 saat sürecek olan yolculukların 2 saate kadar indirgenmesini sağlayan bu teknolojinin fikir babası Tesla ve Space X’in kurucularından Elon Musk, aynı zam...
www.asdteknoloji.net/guncel-haberler/hyperloop-teknolojis...
Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born, Canadian-American business magnate, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity.
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Hyperloop station in a hybridized Brooklyn superblock, from our #MaterialUrbanism summer studio at Pratt
"Material Urbanism" Urban Design Studio Jonas Coersmeier at Pratt Institute School of Architecture, GAUD Graduate Architecture, post-professional Architecture and Urban Design (MSAUD) program, Studio 1, Summer 2019. Student work: Pranav Rastogi and Nikhil Sanghvi
“100 on the dash get me close to God, we don’t pray for love, we just pray for cars.” -Some random song.
“I ain’t able to go fast, but I’m gonna look cool as hell try’n tu” -HyperLoop.
The panelists with their residual self-image... =) The challenge: “What new trends will emerge in the next several years with the potential for explosive growth in about five years' time?” Five VCs are chosen by the Churchill Club to submit two Tech Trends, aggregating to a top 10 list. We then debate the issues on stage and the audience votes in real time.
I have done this for ten years now, and it gets progressively more difficult to come up with two new trends each year that are important, and non-obvious, and likely to come true.
This year, my fellow panelists were Bill Gurley of Benchmark, Jenny Lee of GGV, Rebecca Lynn of Canvas, and Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Ventures. In the photo, we are flanked by Karlgaard and Upbin of Forbes magazine, the debate moderators.
Here is some of the press coverage:
blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/05/22/robocars-and-hype...
www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/05/22/five-top-ventur...
www.eweek.com/mobile/ambient-computing-disruptive-banking...
www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2015/05/22/five-t...
and the full video: youtu.be/qQIu5UO6OZ8
Our 2015 Top 10 list
1. On-Demand Ambient Computing.
On-Demand Ambient Computing driven by AI will usher in a world of invisible computing that will drive efficiencies across many industries. Growth will come from API's/algorithms across mobile platforms; AI will predict human intent and deliver items/information at the speed of human thought. [Shervin Pishevar]
2. Traditional Banks Will Continue Losing Share to Startups while Bitcoin Fades in Relevance.
Financial-services institutions will continue to be disintermediated, and will either act as the back-end infrastructure or co-exist as they do in the Lending Club model. Meanwhile, Bitcoin as a currency and remittance solution will lose steam. [Rebecca Lynn]
3. The Virtual Me.
Advances in hardware and sensors and the adoption of connected devices will create an explosion of personal data in the next 5 years. With increased data processing capabilities and smarter predictive software, all this data will be aggregated into personal digital profiles – the virtual you – which will know even more about you than you do. [Jenny Lee]
4. The Skynet Economy: broadband access for the unconnected billions.
From thousands of satellites orbiting around the poles, and new airborne transponders, the entire Earth will be bathed in broadband, bringing an unprecedented influx of human talent to the global economy. [Steve Jurvetson]
5. The End of the Auto Nation.
For the better part of a century, the United States has designed its cities around the notion of individual car ownership. This has resulted in massive waste, congestion, pollution, long commute times, remarkably underutilized capital assets, and over 30,000 deaths per year. Suburban sprawl reached its ultimate limit, and the trends are all rebounding around a new urbanization. [Bill Gurley]
6. 5th Mode of Transportation.
5th Mode of Transportation will be unlocked in the next 5 years. Technologies like Hyperloop will skip over 19th and 20th century transportation modes and do what wireless mobile communication did to fixed line telecommunications in places like Africa. [Shervin Pishevar]
7. Reemergence of Women in Tech.
In the next 5 years, 50% of computer-science students will be women – surpassing the previous high set in 1984. This means you’ll increasingly see more female technology startup founders and Fortune-500 CEOs. [Rebecca Lynn]
8. The Economy of Me.
By 2020, mobile will bring the next 2 billion people online and make the online economy more powerful than the offline. This shift will breed decentralized business models. Commerce and services will skip the middle man and revolve around the individual consumer. Welcome to the personal economy. [Jenny Lee]
9. Rise of the Robocars: Driven by a Machine [the winning trend].
By 2020 we will no longer debate the inevitability of autonomous electric vehicles when we first experience the convenience and efficiency of urban autonomous driving services. [Steve Jurvetson]
10. The Native Mobile Application Platform Dominates the “Mobile Web”.
Consumers drastically prefer mobile applications to the mobile web because they are WAY better. The majority of incremental Internet users will be exclusively on smartphones. The aging search/browser platform will be stifled as a fertile ground for new innovation. [Bill Gurley]
Following up on our debate about the inevitability of autonomous electric vehicles, the IMF just released a study tabulating the subsidy that fossil fuel companies receive: over $14 billion per day. "The IMF calls the revelation shocking and says the figure is an extremely robust estimate of the true cost of fossil fuels. The $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments."