CITI: These 10 Technologies Are Completely Changing The World

Rob Wile, May 1, 2013, 3:25 PM

In a massive new research report, analysts at investment bank Citi take a close look at 10 technologies they say will disrupt the way we do business.

They've dipped into practically every sector you can think of: energy, entertainment, IT, manufacturing, and transportation among them.

Some of these technologies have been with us for awhile, but are poised to get better or cheaper.

Others have only recently surfaced, but will be ubiquitous in a matter of years.

This is what they say the future is going to look like

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/citi-disr...z2UpX4hJCm

Among the 10, few are monitored...

Disruption 1: 3-D Printing:
There was one article on last issue of The Edge on the 3-D printing tech. From recent news, even property developer using it to build building...

Disruption 4: Mobile Payments:
It is happening in Singapore, with more m-wallet, m-cash etc...

Disruption 7: Over The Top Content:
It is telecom pay-TV related, and closely monitored...

Disruption 1: 3-D printing
If you want to 3-D print yourself or your kids, see the attached brochure from a local 3-D printing company. Maybe next time, this will be how pictures are taken - in 3D.


They did not mention robotics. Robotics is more disruptive as it will replace lots and lots of workers in future.

All these technologies do make a better tomorrow but all need a common element - oil or energy. Even the food that we grow and eat is dripping in oil think of how they make fertilizers these days.

Without oil all these things will become meaningless and our human existence will become very difficult. If you think like Jim rogers say farming will be good place to invest in but without oil farming is going to be useless and will grind to a halt. Nobody today can remember how to farm in the old ways with manual labor and pack animals ironically thanks to oil and modernization that knowledge is lost forever.

So the technology that will make a big impact for the future I see will come from building more energy efficient and longer lasting batteries, with batteries means vehicles can run on electricity generated from sustainable sources like sun wind coal.

(31-05-2013, 02:45 PM)sgd Wrote: All these technologies do make a better tomorrow but all need a common element - oil or energy. Even the food that we grow and eat is dripping in oil think of how they make fertilizers these days.

Without oil all these things will become meaningless and our human existence will become very difficult. If you think like Jim rogers say farming will be good place to invest in but without oil farming is going to be useless and will grind to a halt. Nobody today can remember how to farm in the old ways with manual labor and pack animals ironically thanks to oil and modernization that knowledge is lost forever.

Actually, consider the following: In the event that crop output drops, and food prices skyrocket, then farm owners will still be better off than anyone else. Because while their farms are producing less food, they can at least feed themselves (and their families) first, before selling the excess on the market. Whereas everybody else (who isn't rich enough) will suddenly find food too unaffordable or unavailable.

in some ways having a farm you can mitigate shortages for a while, but it also means you and your familly are not mobile Having a farm will become a magnet for hungry hordes of angry people. If such things really happen we could be talking about chaotic times already where theft and security is a huge problem.

I always thought food producers are underrated and finance people are overrated

(01-06-2013, 09:58 PM)specuvestor Wrote: I always thought food producers are underrated and finance people are overrated

According to the law of reversion to the mean, maybe things will change in the future. Food Producers are revered while finance people are look down upon. And it is already happening - Howard Buffett, son of Warren Buffett, who has been well publicised as a farmer, is tipped to take over the chairman role in the future.