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50 years is too far away into the future to make any meaningful predictions. I would be very skeptical of anyone who is confident about their answer.
by jstx1 4y ago
50 years is too far away into the future to make any meaningful predictions. I would be very skeptical of anyone who is confident about their answer.
- rieTohgh6 4y agoNowadays it looks like we are getting close to autonomous vehicles - but it was the same 20 years ago - I predicted then that drivers as a profession will disappear soon - and it still didn't happen. Like many people have already noticed: we overestimate what can be accomplished in the short term and underestimate what can be accomplished in the long term.
- pasttense01 4y agoWell look into the past 50 years. Consider all the massive technological innovations. What I think you will see is truly enormous inertia. For example in 1975 Business Week Magazine predicted the paperless office. So tell us how long ago it has been since you saw paper used for information transmission (in other words not packaging)? Weeks? Months? Last time was when your Grandma sent you a birthday card 3 months ago? No. "The average American office worker uses an average of 10,000 sheets of office paper per year." https://www.formstack.com/resources/blog-paper-statistics https://www.formstack.com/resources/blog-paper-statistics