Matthew Griffin, one of the world's most renowned futurists and foresight experts, 15x author of the Codex of the Future Series, distinguished international keynote, and host of the hit FanaticalFuturist podcast, is the Founder of the 311 Institute, a global futures and deep futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, and XPotential University the world's first free futures and foresight university that's open to all.
A rare talent his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a portfolio of clients that include royalty, world leaders, G7 and G20 governments, and many of the world's most respected and recognised brands. Regularly featured in the global media his mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.
Wow solar powered Electric self-driving cars and environmentally friendly economical infrastructure. Talk about somebody that doesn't keep their promises. I mean how old is this cartoon. Apparently somebody didn't account for economy and greed. Just listen to this cartoon and hear more hopes and dreams getting flushed down the toilet.
Amazing how much of this has already come true. But at the same time it's horrible how reliant we are on cars. We have one of the worst car dependencies in the modernized world.
This is what they should do to fix Tomorrowland. 1950s futurism. Take out Star Tour and move it to Galaxy's Edge (replace that horrible Millennium Falcon ride). Get rid of Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters. Change the Star Wars Launch Bay to this kind of stuff. Interactive though where people dressed like the 1950s era talking about the future.
Half of them exist already, albeit not quite in the form that was originally envisioned. Probably the most remarkable is the nuclear tunnel boring machine. The civilian world doesn't have access to them yet but the military use them for underground construction.
Oh god, it's bad enough that city planning already revolves around cars too much, but they actually expected that we'd modify our houses for highways. Dystopian.
And now, in 2024, just try to get them to fix the ragged, crumbling roads that were built with the cheapest, re-used asphalt, at the lowest cost, taking the longest time possible, by workers that don't have to do quality work because they cant be fired. Now we have bridges that are falling down, multi-lane highways resembling parking lots because of something as mundane as a tunnel. Roadkill everywhere. Trash scattered as far as the eye can see. A car stops moving on the OPPOSITE side of the divided highway, and it's nothing but brake lights and cellphone cameras on your side, all the way to the horizon. Only the drunks drive straight, Sober drivers swerve and weave to avoid the massive potholes and deer carcasses. Karen on her applephone watching a ticktock is riding your ass while putting on her eyeliner and Kyle is in front of you braking hard for every leaf. And O.M.G.. Let a few drops of water fall from the sky! Any precipitation and it's like.. well, in the words of Bill Paxton, "Game over man! Game over!" Yeah.. Welcome to SW Pennsylvania. Football-brained jocks and airhead bimbos galore on the roads! Rarely a competent driver to be found. I tell ya, it's TOO MUCH tech! Lose the touchphone screens and built-in computers and TV's in cars..Put back AM/FM raios with an SD card slot. No more bluetooth, no more aux jacks. No more video players for the twerps. Lose the automatic transmissions and auto-everything and sensors for fuckall-everything, and make it impossible to drive without actually driving. One hand to steer, the other to shift. No spare hand to hold a cellphone or scroll menus on a screen. No screen or touch-controls to demand attention. Put back the knobs, levers, buttons & switches. Make drivers Drive the car. Make drivers-ed mandated in schools. Make minimum speed limits a thing. everyone out there doing 75, and there's Becky and her minivan full of brats going 40. Speed-limit 75 / Minimum speed, 70. If you cant do it, get off the highway. Stay on the back roads.
I was trying to imagine what the power consumption would be needed to keeps roads dry from rain,ice and snow and it probably wouldn't be near as much as AI systems are gulping up today?🤔
Everyone on about the "empty" highways when this NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT cartoon predicts MANY features present in todays vehicles. And has some novel ideas about road construction that would serve well today if they could do it.
Well the self driving car and the rear view mirror showing a video when you back up they got right lol. But you can really see they had no idea of futuristic design. To be fair though, people could probably customize cars to look like this with antique switches etc.
When you remember this was before a lot of the BS environmental regulations we're dealing with today...also the U.S. was beginning its campaign of building scores of nuclear power plants.
Communist propaganda. Most people don’t give much thought to global politics. But the subject has existed for thousands of years. All governments project human population estimates into the future for planning purposes. So the current overpopulation crisis isn’t a crisis. The UN and the Catholic Church decided on ten billion people a long time ago. They want to FORCE Anglo Saxons to accept a grim technological future - to solve the artificial crisis. So now they recommend a patented color-coded imaginary highway. Tron. Communists think that they can overwhelm the free world with ten, or even twenty billion people. The whole thing is an act of war: the violent negroes, the horrible Mexicans, the backstabbing Jews. It was all planned far in advance. The free world has three billion Anglo Saxons. They’re not imaginary. Communists are imaginary.
