[ExI] new job

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On Sun, 24 Nov 2024, Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat wrote:

> For many years, I've been saying that one of the next self made billionaires will be the person who figures out what people do with
> their time riding around in autonomous vehicles. Elon Musk has obviously made a play for a big part of this with Starlink answering
> the question with the answer, "They'll be browsing the Internet silly man." It's interesting how all of his stuff is interrelated.
> Seeing how Tesla and SpaceX and X all integrate to make him more and more money, as well as DOGE (the government thing, not the
> crypto currency) and its effect on all of the above. In any case, I see what Spike is saying as a small part of those billions to be
> made. When people can do fun or useful things in their cars, they may be more open to having longer commutes, and living further out
> in nicer places. 
> I still think there is something else. Part of me thinks it might be related to carpool hookups for longer trips, but there just
> aren't all that many sluts out there. So it must be something else. I can taste it with my mind... distantly... but I really don't
> think I know what it will be exactly yet. When it happens, it will be every bit as interesting as Facebook was at the beginning.
> Could it be something with VR? I just don't quite know, and not knowing the future makes me want to think harder about it.
> 
> Any other thoughts on what this next big thing could be?

Will Musk become the first trillionaire? If he cracks the next wave, maybe 
he will be the one. I also wonder about if the first trillionaire will 
send shocks throughout the more leftist crows and if the power they will 
wield will make them targets for nation states?

In terms of the next wave, I'm still not convinced about VR. I wonder if 
expanding the space venture into power generation, mining, tax havens or 
information havens might be a thing?

Or what about some real nano-technology stuff?

Or will robots finally reach the Jetssons-stage that we have all eagerly 
been waiting for?

Or maybe there will be a breakthrough in battery technology allowing us to 
store vast amounts, cheaply?

I do think fusion power is only 10 years away! ;)


> -Kelly
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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 9:02 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>       Well, OK not exactly.  But it occurred to me that a lot of fun new jobs today didn’t even exist back in the olden days,
>       such as 2020.
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>       Musk introduced the robotaxi last month, which we talked about here for decades.  In all that discussion, nobody ever
>       realized a new requirement: somebody to write fun wisecracks for the taxi to say.  Since it is a computer with voice, you
>       could have it do accents, you could have it guess by the name on the credit card if the passenger is male or female. 
>       Then have it say upon arrival in a female voice: OK Mister, you wanted to come here.  You did.  Now get outta me.
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>       That sorta thing, extra points for funny dual-interpretable sexual innuendo.  Sure you will offend the delicate college
>       student crowd, but the little old ladies will love it.
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>       spike
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