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  H) CRYPTO IOT AND A-COMMERCE (AUTO ECOMMERCE) Everything that can be chipped, will be. The smart refrigerator will scan when you are running low on milk, do a blockchain transaction with the wallet at the grocery store, a drone will drop the milk in the panel in the back of the house feeding into the refrigerator. The more transactions the refrigerator does, the more USBucks are mined. If you run every day, your sneakers will signal when they are worn out and a new pair is ordered. If your cortisol spikes, your therapist will try to contact you. If you read the news and feel angry, the government will keep track of your actions. Maybe soft music will start playing. Big Data and AI plus the tracking of neurochemicals will allow for Minority Report-style situations where crimes can be predicted before they occur. All data is tracked and there are still pockets of society where social justice tracing keeps the population in line.

  G) 3D GENOMICS In 2020, genomics is in a state of 2D stagnation. Yes, the genome was sequenced and diseases based on single-gene mutations (e.g. Tay Sachs) are being regularly cured with CRISP technologies. But diseases based on multi-gene mutations are still impossible to compute. The addition of DNA computing perfectly is suited to solve the problem, uncovering the gene pairs that mutated for all cancers, heart disease, strokes, Alzheimer’s. And then later… IQ, emotional intelligence, athletic ability, charisma. The Chinese and Texas governments have no ethical issues quickly using 3D genomics to create a country of super intelligent babies. Nobody knows what the final result will be.

  F) DNA COMPUTING AND QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY With DNA computing, NP problems will be solvable — including breaking public key cryptography codes, which means crypto keys can be decoded. Which means crypto currencies can be stolen. Although quantum computing never will never work out (Murphy’s Law is constantly being broken), quantum cryptography is solved (it’s a simpler problem than quantum computing) and developed to ensure the safety of crypto after traditional public keys are decoded.

  E) STORAGE WILL BE 100X IN SPEED, SECURITY, AND CAPACITY Because of VR demand and enormous blockchain demands now that crypto is widely adopted, cloud storage demands will be 1000x what they currently are. The biggest companies in the world will be Amazon, Google, Dropbox, Apple but mostly for providing and upkeeping cloud storage and security for data. Every day of 2030 will add up to more information and data created than the entirety of the human race from 0–2025 AD.

  D) U.S. CURRENCY WILL COLLAPSE, BUT NOT THE WAY PEOPLE THINK PART 1: Everyone is worried about hyperinflation. “The Fed isn’t a printing press!” irate home economists screech into the Twitter void. Unfortunately the value of a currency is based not on just supply but also on demand. The demand for the dollar is too high. Everyone in the world wants out of theirs and into ours. The Federal Reserve right now is scared to death of DEFLATION. They would kill for some inflation right now. So they print more and more money. PART II: The Great Secession The Blues don’t like the Reds. They think they are fascists. And the Reds also, coincidentally, think the Blues are fascists. In 2020, there are three electric grids in the United States: East, West, and Texas. Texas secedes first. The Army refuses to get involved. Other states begin to secede. And soon all of the states secede in one giant Secession Convention held on Zoom. Each state works out trade agreements with the other states, in...

  C) THE RISE OF CRYPTO When COVID finally ends, many will abandon the expensive cities for safety reasons, quality of life reasons, financial reasons. Because of increases in bandwidth and the ease of use of Zoom, there will be no more need for office buildings to be full. People could live anywhere and work in the 2D virtual office or in Microsoft VROffice. With fewer people and companies, the tax revenues will plunge just when the deficits are spiking. Mayors in each city will be forced to fire teachers, garbage collectors, police, etc. Crime spikes, garbage everywhere, and fewer tourists will want to go to each city. Cities will need to create incentives! Each city will create a local cryptocurrency to provide incentives. New York City, for instance, will create “NYCBucks.” The idea: Everybody in NY gets a steady UBI (universal basic income) in NYCBucks (instead of dollars), and everyone who visits NYC as a tourist gets an allocation based on how many days they would be in the ...

  B) AUGMENTED REALITY WILL OPERATE SIDE BY SIDE WITH ACTUAL REALITY Robyn and I will be walking by an Amazon 3D printing store and she’ll see a coupon for bras on the door and I’ll see a coupon for some marijuana. We’ll walk by a restaurant and she’ll see, about 12 inches in front of her eye, the vegan menu and I’ll see the paleo menu. We’ll walk by a neighbor and if his settings are set for “everyone” then we’ll see a floating image of the last movie he saw or recent photos from his latest vacation. Or a listing of his political beliefs, on display for all to see just in case you want to have (or avoid) a conversation with him. This will be a direct result of increases in bandwidth, storage, and user interfaces for AR.