If you think about it, we have a pretty amazing world. We drive around in little climate-controlled bubbles with our own entertainment, we fly around the world, talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime, live in climate controlled houses, machines to do much of our work for us and with a vast unending library of all sorts of entertainment at our fingertips! We even go to a place full of machines just to get our exercise! Unfortunately, this amazing world comes with a few problems. Pollution, poverty, famine, anthropogenic climate change, new diseases and health conditions, deforestation and destruction of natural habitat and species, wars and even possible nuclear war. Change also to happen at faster and faster rates , which is unsettling. Now though, the disruptive technological transformations in energy and transportation promise to provide answers to solve many, if not all of those problems this century or even in the next 25 years.
We have seen huge changes in information, one of the five key civilizational sectors along with energy, food, materials, and transportation. This disruptive technological transformation has changed our world over the last 70+ years more rapidly than most thought possible. Now major disruption is underway in energy and transportation that will bring greater and faster change everywhere. Change in medicine, food, labor and materials is rapidly coming along too. The pace and scope of change across all sectors is increasing in unparalleled and historical ways. The first section of this presentation covers how these transformations take place and the news that all of this could be very good news for human civilization.
We’re going to hear from John Rothgeb, join us this Thursday, 11AM CST