1, * * Enjoy the economy: We have at least 100 kinds of things around us, but we don't always use them (houses, cars, offices, bicycles). * * * Enjoy the economy and let others use these things when we are not using them. This is already a billion-dollar industry (headed by AirBnb). However, we haven't seen those bigger companies can easily reach 10 billion. In the United States, some people use Flightcar to rent a car for 50 days, which has great potential. Hundreds of companies that cultivate different products in this industry are emerging, such as AirEnvy and Homejoy, and things like research laboratories will also be part of this model.
2. Electric vehicle: Tesla is producing a sustainable electric vehicle. However, we still have a long way to go on the road of improving battery technology, establishing charging stations and producing cars. This is more likely to become an alternative industry.
3. Internet of Things: Our computers are interconnected, and we can communicate through computers. Then our mobile phones can also be connected to the internet. Gartner estimates that at least 26 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. This means that each of us has at least 25 to 30 devices at home that can "communicate" with each other.
4.3D printing: 30 years ago, printed newspapers could only be completed by large-scale printed newspapers. Unless you are a big company, printing is quite inconvenient for you and you must rely on the printing factory. Later, printers appeared on people's desks, and document management changed greatly. This situation will also appear in the world of 3D printing. Now only large factories can set foot in the manufacturing industry, and the transformation of 3D printing will create a large number of secondary industries and produce brand-new products.
5. Smart city: Google is making driverless cars, Stanford University is studying smart trash cans (when you throw garbage, trash cans can automatically identify classified garbage), and our sewage treatment system will become smarter. In the future, a lot of boring and repetitive work will be done automatically by intelligent robots.
6. Licensing and management of open source projects: It has been 20 years since the open source movement, but only now have large organizations begun to embark on the road of open source. We are still far from the turning point. Hundreds of billions of software will be open source, which will increase the complexity of open source licensing, support and management.
7. Solar energy: Compared with conventional energy, solar energy is still too expensive. Then the cost of producing solar energy gradually came down. At the current rate, solar energy will be as cheap as traditional energy in 10 years. This will completely change this industry, which will develop into a trillion solar energy industry.
8. Online education: Large open online courses have torn the skin of traditional education, but putting videos online will not create a school. Education is a trillion-dollar market, and it will take us another 20 years to make the education industry reach a turning point.
9. Bitcoin: Many people in Silicon Valley think that Bitcoin will be the next big event. Just as the Internet has liberated information in the hands of big companies, Bitcoin wants to do the same thing with money. I am skeptical about this, but I can see that many secondary industries are formed around the ecosystem of Bitcoin.
10, intelligent dust, programmable components, nanotechnology: this is a part of science fiction, and some are still under study. It may not happen in 20 years, but it has great potential to change the way we dress, the way we look at diseases, the way we get energy and the way we drive.