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...

  Dit is een vertaalde versie van artikel van het Wereld Economisch Forum (WEF), waar zoveel om te doen is als visie op de toekomst. Deze versie is gevonden op Forbes als vooraankondiging van de WEF agenda in 2016. (Ik heb het oorspronkelijke artikel laten vertalen. Het origineel is te vinden in de link onderaan - Benno Pieters). [Tussen de vierkante haken, de technologie die dit mogelijk maakt] Welkom in het jaar 2030. Welkom in mijn stad - of moet ik zeggen, 'onze stad'. Ik bezit niets. Ik heb geen auto. Ik heb geen huis. Ik heb geen apparaten of kleding. [De stad is een Smart City waarbij alles met elkaar communiceert en bestuurd wordt door een AI. Het is een concept waar al 20 jaar aan gewerkt wordt. Mensen zullen er een zeer comfortable leven in hebben, is het idee.] Het lijkt misschien vreemd voor u, maar het is volkomen logisch voor ons in deze stad. Alles wat je als een product beschouwde, is nu een dienst geworden. We hebben toegang tot vervoer, accommodatie, voedsel e...

 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...

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 ...