#PREVIEW: #SpecialEdition. Forecasting 2050-2100 CE. George Friedman, @GPFutures
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🗓️ 16 June 2023
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#PREVIEW: #SpecialEdition. Forecasting 2050-2100 CE. George Friedman, @GPFutures
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| 0:31.3 | This is John Bachelors. I spoke with George Friedman, the founder and chairman of Geopolitical |
| 0:35.8 | Futures, about forecasting the year 2050 to the year 2100. George is very good at this and |
| 0:42.9 | his earlier books have proved very helpful to understand where we are and where we're going. |
| 0:48.5 | I asked about technology, emphasizing the flavor of the moment, artificial intelligence, AI. |
| 0:55.1 | George's response was, no, it will be medical technology. Why? Here's George. |
| 1:03.6 | The technology that I think will dominate the United States is going to be medicine. |
| 1:09.7 | During COVID, we discovered that our medical is not very good at handling crises like that. |
| 1:17.2 | The times too much. But secondly, it's demographic problem. We're getting older. |
| 1:25.4 | Various diseases are taking us and making us consumer, but not able to produce. |
| 1:31.3 | Birth rates are down. We're coming into a period in which the elderly will be the burden on the United |
| 1:38.7 | States. There must be solutions for things like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. This is a social |
| 1:44.8 | development. All of the social revolution's economic revolution's, technical revolution are |
| 1:50.4 | linked together. And so we see in the United States the ability to solve these problems. |
| 1:58.0 | AI is nice, but making sure that the elderly don't bankrupt the country by being ill and unproductive, |
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