Benno Pieters' Blog

I have privacy through my personal AI on my blockchain, can sell my data to the platforms and life has never been better! This is a vision paper about a Libertarian future as a counterpart to that of the World Economic Forum.  By Bernard (Benno) Pieters - Interpreting the Future Possibilities 😉 Welcome to the year 2030! Welcome to my district - or should I say, 'our district' of the village. I have everything I need to live a good life. I have a self-sufficient house. I have a nice partner and 2 children, and we can go on holiday whenever we want. I have a solar-powered car, so I don't need fuel anymore. Not only that, but I have all the appliances and clothes that make life pleasant. We live in a self-sufficient community, and we are part of the 'free cooperative society'.  Privacy & Smart contracts Our neighborhood is a Smart contract neighborhood in the village or small town, where everything communicates with each other via the Smart contract AI of the Nei...

 At the time of writing, the Robot EV industry is growing en buzzing. In this short video you can see an overview of the developments so far:  https://bit.ly/AutonomousEV2022 Suppose you own a self-driving car, you drive to a meeting somewhere in the country, and once arrived you give your car the notice to 'go and earn money'.  The car then becomes a taxi-service for you in that neighbourhood, earning money for you. You give your car a return time to pick you up from the meeting location. The car will not accept rides from third persons that will exceed that timeframe. Unless you give it permission for that one ride because it earns good money.  With the money you earn, you can buy/finance a second car that can earn money for you continuously, and you can build up a fleet of cars that can earn passive income for you.  In fact, that is just what Tesla intends to do; they will cease selling cars at a certain point in time and only lease them out. It is to be seen...

Cultured Meat can be very disruptive for the meat industry. But it will take a few years before it is so.  Look at the video via this link! There are multiple start-ups racing to be one of the first to market. Millions of investment money is being poured into this new market. The price of Cultured Meat is coming down too. In about 5-7 years the meat industry as we know it, will no longer exist. The promise of the new meat market is huge; no longer will we need to kill animals for food. New types of meat will enter the market. In combination with 3D printing, new forms will appear, making creating meat dishes more and more fun!  Is there a down side? Of course, millions of people will lose their job in the Meat Market. Slaughter houses will dissapear. Cattle farmers will dissapear, as will butcher shops. The whole industry will down-size drastically and will change fundamentally. 

I believe that the Cottage Industry will return in Full Force! What is the Cottage Industry? In Medieval times, in the villages, people used to produce from their own homes. They had a small plot of land to grow vegetables, perhaps keep a cow, and had a few chickens. They were blacksmiths, or bakers, weavers, or cobblers and paid each other with pieces of silver. Some were beer brewers, which used to be very important because you could not always trust the water supply. Gold was used for larger items. In the Anglo-Saxon world, 1 troy ounce of gold, would buy a gentleman a hand-tailored suit. It still does. People were not really rich in those times, but they were quite happy. Here in the Netherlands, you can get a grasp of how that used to be at the Archeon Museum. Industrial Revolution Once the Industrial Revolution started, people flocked toward the cities because they could earn more. The Cottage Industry ceased to be effective as specialization and economies of scale started to set...

The brilliant Ray Kurzweil has made many predictions about technological developments. He bases his predictions on More's Law, which states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years while halving the cost. By interpreting what that means for technological developments and their capabilities, Ray Kurzweil has made many eerily accurate predictions. Some say that his prediction success is in the neighborhood of 80%.  One of his predictions is that humans and technology will merge for the benefit of each other, thereby creating a new sort of human species. What happens after that he can't predict. Originally he said it would take place around 2045, but now he has revised it to 2035. Around that time it will be possible to upload parts of the human brain en download them into that of others. Theoretically, you could learn to speak a language in an instant by downloading someone else's language skills. Or learn Kung Fu or Pencak Silat. Basically, you could ...

The oil producing countries are in for a shock! When you read or watch the news and you hear and see that the major oil producing countries are reducing oil production in an effort to raise prices, you would think that the €100 per barrel is an achievable goal. But it is a sympton and confirmation that oil prices are slowly but steadily dropping. Not that it cannot have one or two upside hiccups, but it is going down. Why? There is a good reason for this. When the oilprices hit an all time high of €161 per barrel in june 2008 (https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart)  it set of a chain of events. It made people realise that things had to change and many people around the globe set off to do just that. Now in june 2017, we can see a number of trend getting a firm foothold. Houses are going to be energy self sufficient within the next 15 years. Indeed, they going to be little energy suppliers by themselves. With solar roof panelling th...

Two ways to speed things up. It doesn't let me go; it must be possible to find out sooner than 10 years if FOXO4-DRI is going to be a compound that gives us youth until 120 years! When I look at beloved old people around me, with all sort of ailment I feel that we as a society must be able to come up with something. I may be totally wrong in assuming this, but as a concerned citizen I feel the need to speak out. Dr. Peter de Keizer, the discoverer of the effectiveness of FOXO4-DRI, rightly says that one should not experiment on oneself as there is no way of finding out yet what the possible side effects may be when applied to humans. One brave (or reckless) individual, Mr. Darren Moore, bought the stuff anyway and started using it on himself, reporting his findings online ( Click here ). We all hope he is doing all right at present. It is speculated that there are many other individuals trying it out. But why not speed things up without taking drastic meas...

Huge economical impact Perhaps I am jumping the gun, and FOXO4-DRI may turn out to be a disappointment, but it at the same time it is already time to think about the implication of worldwide rejuvenation impact. People become more healthy and they will be fit for work again. It will have huge impact on the retirement age. Maybe it has to be set to 100 years or 110 years. Maybe it can be abolished all together, with people building up savings all their work-life's. Maybe we will all start to learn how to build up a retirement schema for ourselves so that we can retire at an age we want. Many sectors of the economy will be affected. Will there be enough jobs to go around? I think there will be because may of the longer living people will start a business of their own and employ people. What kind of lifestyle can you lead? I think that when you can build up your financial wealth during a longer time, that you can lead a reasonably comfortable life. What happens to f...

He got good results he says! In a dangerous move, Mr. Moore started using FOXO4-DRI on himself. He publishes the results on his personal blog ( Read it here ). Most noticeably is that his hair has become thicker and he got more energy. The discoverer of the rejuvenation effects of FOXO4-DRI in mice, the Dutch Scientist Dr. Peter de Keizer, discourages everybody from self experimentation. The reason being the Mice are not Humans and that the medium & long term effects on the human body are totally unknown! So Mr. Moore may end up as the unhappy end in his own version of Horror movie. But at the same time, wouldn't it be wonderful if it would work? We would all be thankful to Mr. Moore and Dr. de Keizer can get a Nobel Prize! At present FOXO-DRI is very expensive and a cure would cost you a lot of money. But it can be produced relatively easily, once it has been proven that it is effective. You can already buy it online from Chinese companies at a rat...

Mice became young again! In March of 2017 a sensational discovery was published by Dr. Peter de Keizer, a Dutch Scientist at Eramsus MC in Rotterdam, in which he stated that he and his team had found a way to reverse aging in mice. ( Read the article by clicking here ) His research had been targeted toward fighting Cancer and slowing the aging process. But when they saw the results in mice, they were astonished: ‘These effects were not what we were purposefully looking for – we had been looking at the kidneys of the mice. But when we realised the implications, we started dancing in the lab,’ said De Keizer The compound is FOXO4-DRI which is relatively easy to produce. Which means it could become available for everyone. It is of-course fascinating and we all hope that this will be a significant step in aging more healthily! Don't try this at Home! Dr. de Keizer urges every one to wait until further test have been conducted. "Mice are...

One of the best Social Media Branding strategies is the social patterning method:  ‘on becoming a Brand!’, which has proven itself extremely well in the past 5 years. It originated in the Netherlands (Europe) and enables small and large companies to brand themselves or their products in a fast way using the social media. In order to do that you need to set-up a Social Media Pattern , which is an investment in time of about one working week. After that it only requires 15 minute a day monitoring time. There is a book called ‘On becoming a Brand!’ written by Benno Pieters and Antoinette Pernot which describes the whole method. So what are the rules? 1)       Knowing what you want. Your product or service offering needs to solve a common problem for a larger group of people, the so called niche. There has to be a vision behind the product which lasts at least 5 years. People love consistency. Next you need to have a mission; the road to achiev...

Together with Antoinette Pernot I wrote the book (in Dutch) in the spring of 2010. It is about how to Become a Brand (yourself). Since we are both Sales People, we look at new ways of generating business with the intent to selling something. We look at new technologies in how we can apply to sell something (easily). We test them and tweak them and when satisfied start using it ourselves. Sometimes we can productize them and support our customers in doing their business. Authority Selling What you really want in selling is that customers approach you in stead of the other way around. Then you can concentrate on quality in delivering your product or service. The best way to sell something is by having a great reputation, by being a brand. Then there are no questions about quality, delivery, people just assume that what you deliver is good stuff and want to know how it can help them. The next step is becoming an Authority in your field of expertise. Then potential customers will start ...

Having forgotten for some time about this Blog, I am back to pusue my Blog activities and publis my Blog thoughts. I also blog professionally on http://www.auriumcommerce.com/Aurium_Commerce/Blog/Blog.html, (take a look) but on this blog I will tackle issues which amuse me or make me wonder. Professionally, I have eveloved to being a Business Catalyst. I have gone beyond the business formula of TC-One (the Sales Consultancy) and have now Aurium Commerce, The Sales Support Company. Antoinette Pernot is my Business Associate and together we conceive new ways of getting business done. Or latest way of supporting small businesses is our Personal Sales & Branding Support Service, in which we help small businesses become a brand in a short time using a combination of traditional business development and the new social media. The goal is to become an authority and the game moves on to Authority Selling. I will be blogging about this on my professional Blog. This will create a continal str...