In the future, we will be embarrassed to look back at our current systems and the way we used to be.

Want ideas on where to innovate? Here are 15 that I think about from time to time 👇
1. The workweek - our current way of working is not natural, wastes time and squanders life. The future will look very different from a standard workweek, or even a 4-day workweek. Companies who figure this out first will profit the most.
2. Centralized identities - the future is in decentralized, transferable, censorship-resistant identities. As building up a personal brand becomes more prevalent, censorship concerns will continue rising. Who is building this and who is already integrating?
3. The screen - it is unnatural to stare at a screen most of the time. Our bodies are not made to stare at brightly lit rectangles. In the future we will have seamless display interfaces anywhere we go.
4. Employment regulation - we live in an interconnected world with access to global talent, yet you must have certain residential status to tap into the full benefits of working for a certain company. In the future, it will be irrelevant where you live or what time zone you work
5. Social graphs as recommendation mechanisms - SEO will become less and less relevant. We already get much of our information from the social groups we curate. Who is building the tools to accommodate this shift?
6. Workspaces - our current environments pose health risks - from formaldehyde to artificial lighting and lack of sunlight resulting in increased cases of myopia. Indoors and outdoor will become one. It'll be hard to say whether you are indoors or outdoors.
7. The university education model - is not equipped to educate for the tasks of the future. I say tasks because we will likely have fewer defined "jobs" as people will shift from task to task instead of job to job. @LambdaSchool is only the beginning. What's next?
8. Supermarkets - ecom and on-demand groceries are a step forward, but we still have an overabundance of stuff. Yea, it's great to have choices, but I feel this is unsustainable in the long run. Something will have to change dramatically and someone will profit massively.
9. Our homes - current housing is uninspiring and wasteful. The house of the future will combine efficiency, elegance, and possibly nature to the full extent. Our homes will likely become dynamic, evolving, and transform from indoors to outdoors and back.
10. Cities - more density is not a solution. Overpopulation leads to all sorts of psychological problems that we have not even begun to grasp yet. While I don't see an end to cities, we'll place more importance on communities with desirable properties.
11. Zoning and community planning - current community planning in parts of the world is shameful. The best-planned communities of the future will attract the best talent and will incentivize them to improve the community further.
12. Design - while we remain on screens, there is a ton of opportunity for people to create design software. Even current tools like Webflow are too limiting for the average person. Unlocking usability for the average person will bring an exponential level of talent to the web.
13. Web development - while we are probably pretty far from replacing the web developer, I suspect many of the repetitive elements of coding will be automated in ever-increasing ways. Flutter is only the beginning.
14. Curated products and information - the more data we put out there, the more it needs to be curated. More people's jobs will consist of curating information and nothing else.
15. Investable assets and opportunities - The stock market and real estate markets currently act as retirement/ wealth preservation mechanisms and are totally unsustainable. This will change very quickly, very soon. Who is going to capture that shift?

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