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The future is coming fast .. so let's talk about the opportunities.
The purpose of this thread is to inspire creative thought and new ideas by asking questions.
When X happens, what happens to Y or Z or E ..
For instance:
When self-driving cars are commonplace and more people use ride sharing and stop owning cars, what happens to garages?
- Will they be re-purposed? How will we use them?
- What about garage doors? What will we do with them?
- Will we use our garage as a loading dock?
- Will it be our man cave?
- Will it become a tiny business location?
- Who will strategize and design the new layout?
- Who will construct it?
- Who will provide the tools for that?
When clothes are 3D printed at little to no cost, what happens to the old clothes?
- Will we just trash them?
- How can they be recycled?
- What else could the materials be used for?
- What new industries might emerge as a result?
- Who will collect old clothes for people who have a lot to get rid of?
- Instead of selling clothes, will we sell designs?
- Will there need to be a marketplace for people to sell designs?
- What materials will be required for 3D printing?
- Who will supply those?
- Who will supply the printers?
- What role will branding play in this?
- How will patents affect this?
When truck drivers get laid off in droves, what will they do then?
- Will they want to start a business?
- Will they retrain into different industries?
- Will they need help with resumes?
- Will resumes even be a thing?
- Who will provide job training?
- Who will help them find new jobs?
- What else changes as a result of mass layoffs?
- How will truck stops change? Will they still exist?
- What products will they sell and who will they sell to?
- Will trucks have remote, digital drivers?
- Who will start that company?
- Who will train those people?
- What happens to the turkey leg drumstick?
As companies shift from traditional employment to remote employees, what happens as a result?
- When more people work from home, what will their needs be?
- When all those big office buildings are empty, what happens to them?
- Will they be demolished? Who will demolish them?
- Will they be repurposed? Who will repurpose them?
- Can the materials be used in some other way?
- What about parking garages, especially since cars won't need to park there (if they're autonomous)
- What new services will the age of remote workers introduce?
- What new communication tools will businesses need to keep their people together?
- What will businesses need as they adapt more global employees by expanding into freelance?
- Who will help them find the best talent?
- When companies can hire the best of the best, what happens to everyone else?
- Who will help them find work?
- What opportunities could arise for those people?
With people spending more and more time in digital realities, what new opportunities will emerge?
- Will we have customized personal avatars? Who will create that?
- Will we sell digital real-estate? Who will sell it and where does it come from?
- What services will these people need handled while they're inside their mind?
- How will the way they make purchasing decisions shift and change?
- What new advertising methods will exist?
- How will this affect current advertising methods?
- How could Virtual Reality change traditional schooling?
- Will we show up in digital class rooms?
- What would then happen to the huge school buildings?
- Could schools be re-purposed into community living spaces?
- If so, who will create those spaces?
- Who will design them?
- Who will market them?
- What else could they be turned into?
You can answer in a response if you want to, but you don't have to. I just wanted to pose questions to get the gears turning. Feel free to post your own questions with follow-on questions if something pops in your mind.
The questions above are aimed at the next 5-10 years. That might seem far away. But I started my first business idea in 2010 and it seems like yesterday. For anything I do moving forward I'll consider not just the money it makes right now, but how adaptable it will be and the ways I might prepare to adapt for tomorrow.
The purpose of this thread is to inspire creative thought and new ideas by asking questions.
When X happens, what happens to Y or Z or E ..
For instance:
When self-driving cars are commonplace and more people use ride sharing and stop owning cars, what happens to garages?
- Will they be re-purposed? How will we use them?
- What about garage doors? What will we do with them?
- Will we use our garage as a loading dock?
- Will it be our man cave?
- Will it become a tiny business location?
- Who will strategize and design the new layout?
- Who will construct it?
- Who will provide the tools for that?
When clothes are 3D printed at little to no cost, what happens to the old clothes?
- Will we just trash them?
- How can they be recycled?
- What else could the materials be used for?
- What new industries might emerge as a result?
- Who will collect old clothes for people who have a lot to get rid of?
- Instead of selling clothes, will we sell designs?
- Will there need to be a marketplace for people to sell designs?
- What materials will be required for 3D printing?
- Who will supply those?
- Who will supply the printers?
- What role will branding play in this?
- How will patents affect this?
When truck drivers get laid off in droves, what will they do then?
- Will they want to start a business?
- Will they retrain into different industries?
- Will they need help with resumes?
- Will resumes even be a thing?
- Who will provide job training?
- Who will help them find new jobs?
- What else changes as a result of mass layoffs?
- How will truck stops change? Will they still exist?
- What products will they sell and who will they sell to?
- Will trucks have remote, digital drivers?
- Who will start that company?
- Who will train those people?
- What happens to the turkey leg drumstick?
As companies shift from traditional employment to remote employees, what happens as a result?
- When more people work from home, what will their needs be?
- When all those big office buildings are empty, what happens to them?
- Will they be demolished? Who will demolish them?
- Will they be repurposed? Who will repurpose them?
- Can the materials be used in some other way?
- What about parking garages, especially since cars won't need to park there (if they're autonomous)
- What new services will the age of remote workers introduce?
- What new communication tools will businesses need to keep their people together?
- What will businesses need as they adapt more global employees by expanding into freelance?
- Who will help them find the best talent?
- When companies can hire the best of the best, what happens to everyone else?
- Who will help them find work?
- What opportunities could arise for those people?
With people spending more and more time in digital realities, what new opportunities will emerge?
- Will we have customized personal avatars? Who will create that?
- Will we sell digital real-estate? Who will sell it and where does it come from?
- What services will these people need handled while they're inside their mind?
- How will the way they make purchasing decisions shift and change?
- What new advertising methods will exist?
- How will this affect current advertising methods?
- How could Virtual Reality change traditional schooling?
- Will we show up in digital class rooms?
- What would then happen to the huge school buildings?
- Could schools be re-purposed into community living spaces?
- If so, who will create those spaces?
- Who will design them?
- Who will market them?
- What else could they be turned into?
You can answer in a response if you want to, but you don't have to. I just wanted to pose questions to get the gears turning. Feel free to post your own questions with follow-on questions if something pops in your mind.
The questions above are aimed at the next 5-10 years. That might seem far away. But I started my first business idea in 2010 and it seems like yesterday. For anything I do moving forward I'll consider not just the money it makes right now, but how adaptable it will be and the ways I might prepare to adapt for tomorrow.
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