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5 Years Out - What are your expected Cash Cows in 5 years?

HKPhysicist
HKPhysicist over 2 years ago

A famous electronics wholesaler`s slogan - "5 Years Out".

So what kind of relevant electronics technology or product will become a Cash Cow 5 years later from now on?Money mouth

Please show your opinions.

Let me start first.

As British Defence Minister expressed in public, we are entering pre-World War stage.  I expect that new military applications can become cash cows.

  1. Defensive drone primarily for annihilating the opponent`s invading drone.
  2. Very fast Machine Vision for identifying EM wave stealth objects.
  3. Money mouth

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  • dougw
    0 dougw over 2 years ago in reply to robogary

    Like you can be put in a metaverse jail....Drooling face

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  • robogary
    0 robogary over 2 years ago in reply to dougw

    Could be, as long as the metaverses allows people to include all their worldly vices into the metaverse and let the id run wild, i.e. be unaccountable for bad behaviors.  

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  • Jan Cumps
    0 Jan Cumps over 2 years ago in reply to HKPhysicist
    HKPhysicist said:
    Please check recent EU announcement.

    Reference?

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    0 HKPhysicist over 2 years ago in reply to dougw

    EV is being abandoned, though.

    Please check recent EU announcement.Smirk

    Internal Combustion Engine with non-carbon working fluid is always the correct direction.

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    0 HKPhysicist over 2 years ago in reply to robogary

    I think this new tech can earn big Money mouth

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  • dougw
    0 dougw over 2 years ago in reply to robogary

    25% of jobs will have to spend time in a metaverse, and 50% of leisure time will be spent in a metaverse. There will be lots of cash cows in the metaverse, but it is hard to single out the home runs at this stage.

    And yes, there will be spies and hackers and bots in the metaverses and even wormholes between metaverses or metaverses within metaverses. You might even have wars within metaverses.

    Maybe the cash cow will be VR systems. There are already billions of dollars being invested in VR systems and metaverses.

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  • dang74
    0 dang74 over 2 years ago in reply to robogary

    I remember once on a road trip listening to a countdown of Billboard's top songs of the 80s.  That song was number 1.

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  • robogary
    0 robogary over 2 years ago in reply to bradfordmiller

    reminded me of a song  :-) 

    . … Every single day
    And every word you say
    Every game you play
    Every night you stay
    I'll be watching you    

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    0 bradfordmiller over 2 years ago in reply to robogary

    And uploading to NSA databases.

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    0 robogary over 2 years ago

    The cash cow will be a consumer device, like a cell phone on steroids.

    It will house an online ChatBot assistant called Soul Guru. It will contain a 24 hr continuous real time database of all your physiological and psychological measurements time stamped with your personal log, which people will endear the chatbot with all their personal thoughts and discussions of the meaning of life, what brings them pleasure, etc.  The AI will guide users to achieve one-ness with the world, inner peace, serenity, physical and mental wellness, self satisfaction, self gratification, while indoctrinating and encouraging complete compliance to idiocracy.  

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