2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030
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star0 15 weeks ago Yesterday I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the TEDxReset Conference in Istanbul, Turkey where I predicted that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030. Since my 18-minute talk was about the rapidly shifting nature of colleges and higher education, I didn’t have time to explain how and why so many jobs would be going away. Because of all of the questions I received afterwards, I will do that here.
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There are some VERY interesting comments in the comment thread to that article. Here is one:
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To KRP,
No, I am not smoking crack, and yes these things really are going to happen. But you’re jumping to some very illogical conclusions.
I will be speaking at a US Dept of Energy conference in Washington DC, to an audience of upwards of 1,000 industry executives on Wednesday. My message to them will be that change is coming and it will be best if its orchestrated from within. They can either embrace it or let other countries take the lead.
Working closely with the inventor community, I’ve had the unusual opportunity to see breakthrough technologies at the formative stages, and there are several around the edges that are now reaching the boiling point. Two, in particular, are well-positioned to make inroads because they have solid entrepreneurial teams with plans to work within the existing power companies. Even though power companies are monopolies, they still have a responsibility to shareholders to streamline operations and cut costs. And once communities find out that they can still get quality power to their homes without having the ugly powerlines hanging overhead, they will begin to demand it. From there, all of the other dominoes begin to fall.
Its fine to be cynical. I was too until I took a hard look at what’s happening in the trenches. The competition among nations is a powerful force and shouldn’t be overlooked.
Thomas Frey
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What the hell could he be talking about? What are these two mysterious technologies?
More from Frey:
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February 7th, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Since I signed an NDA, I’m not able to give you details. But what I will say is that I’ve looked at hundreds of energy related inventions over the years and none have the potential of this one. Its quite obvious how it works, and operates silently inside a container without the need for any external power, water, or other inputs. There is no pollution. And the best part is that it serves as a mass energy storage system, efficiently storing power from one day to the next.
I can say what it is not. It is not a Tesla device. It is not a solar or fuel cell device. It does not involve zero point energy or any other fabricated sciences. However, it was developed by a physicist with a strong entrepreneurial background.
I wish I could say more, but that’s all I can say for now.
Thomas Frey