In this post i will just state some of my thoughts of today about a change in Western Society about the values and dreams and status symbols we chase. And how technology makes most of the old ones obsolete.
To me a Rolex watch looks really boring and ugly. If i see one it looks like a symbol of poverty and boringness. Same with Tag Heuer. Yet those used to be status symbols! Petrol consuming cars, they are loud, they stink in my garage, my friends would say uuh youre polluting the environment, yet that used to be a status symbol! Soon it will be much cheaper to just use Uber if you need a ride, sometimes even comparable to public transport considering uber is much faster in some places. Also imagine if they start autonomous-uber-ride-sharing to work. Less cars less congestion. When i pulled out my S8 phone once, a 12yo girl from the country side went all wild and wanted to play with it! When i say i work trough the internet, students find that uber-cool. Im hearing this often that people would like a location independant job, go travelling. Swiss people spend most of their spare money on travel! Government used to have Universities that were pushing research and making innovations. Now The biggest Artificial Intelligence efforts are made by google i would bet. Private companies are pushing quantum computers which will soon have more calculating power than a brain and come up with new ideas and solutions that we could never have dreamed of. Most new billionaires come from the tech-world, where exponential growth is considered normal. What im seeing is change. A change in the dominant generation and in ideas in living in visions and dreams. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Facebook wants internet for everyone. Cryptocurrency people want all kinds of cool things, like digitized assets to bring liquidity into all markets, P2P lending, complete privacy and independance from Government. The technology elite sees itself as the solution to everything, healthcare, poverty, clean water, education. The doctor isnt any longer the saviour, now its the nanotechnology and biotechnology CEO who saves the world (or thinks he is) How things are changing, yet stay the same :) Comments are closed.
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AuthorPascal |