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Good Morning Brave New World, Welcome to The All-Digital Future
Who will win in an All-Digital World?
When you were a child and imagined what the future brave new world would look like, what fanciful images came to mind? Flying cars filling the sky, portals that allowed people to instantly travel from one place to the next, highly intelligent robots filling public service positions throughout the world, the ability to finally talk to our dogs and cats?
When I was younger, I was enamored by comic books and television shows that imagined a technologically advanced future where human needs and desires were met instantaneously. In the future, I was sure that humans would teleport and navigate the universe in huge starships where artificially-intelligent humanoid robots did our bidding.
I believe we are already in the future. We are just in denial that we are in the future.
Waking up in the middle of the year 2020 looks quite a bit different, wouldn’t you agree? While we are making great strides toward filling our streets with electronic self-driving cars and online algorithms allow us to communicate via video screens from every corner of the globe, we are still in the process of making our futuristic dreams a reality.
