3 Big Trends Impacting Our Lives Right Now
There are 3 trends that are currently developing but are impacting our lives right now, but they will be an even bigger deal over the course of the next decade.
I want to give a brief outline of those 3 trends here. Please understand that these are not the only trends out there but I think they are 3 of the most important ones.
Trend 1 Decentralization
This trend should be very familiar to anyone using Steemit, because Steemit is a part of this trend. But decentralization is not just crypto-coins and related technology, it is a part of a larger trend that is extending across technology, the economy, politics, and more. Virtually everything is getting impacted by the force of decentralization.
Brexit is one example of decentralization happening on a Macro scale, Steemit is an example of something on a, currently, smaller scale.
For a number of years now forces of Centralization have warred with forces of Decentralization and for years Centralization has been winning. Governments have gotten bigger, business has gotten bigger, the number of suppliers for virtually everything has been going down.
But recently a combination of social and technological inventions have tilted the playing field in the favor of Decentralization. The first invention was the internet, it was built to be a massively decentralized communications network and it allowed for cheap global communication. But the internet was co-opted and quickly developed centralized aspects. Platforms, like Amazon, Facebook, and Google, rose up to dominate huge parts of the internet and our lives. Arguably this is still more decentralized than it was before (anyone can setup shop in Amazon, start a page on Facebook, or get indexed by Google) but it was still a problem. After the invention of Bitcoin this is starting to change. Open Bazaar for Ecommerce, Steemit for social media, and even YaCy for search. We now have the power to truly decentralize huge parts of our lives and we are seeing the impact of that reverberate throughout the world.
Trend 2 Real Food
There is a huge backlash growing against our industrial food culture. People are slowly realizing that they have been lied to for decades and that a massive part of many of our health problems, obesity, diabetes, and such, can be directly traced back to food manufacturers and the outcome of their search for a way to keep growing.
Obesity stems in large part form processed foods being hyper-palatable.
Diabetes is looking more and more like it comes from replacing fat with sugar in our diets.
People are pretty fed up.
People are starting to vote with their dollars and make their voices heard at a political level.
We now face a dilemma, our cheap food is killing us but we need more and more food as the population grows. How we respond to this challenge will define a large part of the next decade.
Trend 3 Entrepreneurship
In the book The Forth Economy it details how we are moving from an Information Economy into an Entrepreneur Economy.
Read a good synopsis here: https://taylorpearson.me/the-fourth-economy/
This trend is well underway but it is still not understood. Our entrepreneur rock stars are to the fourth economy what Rockefeller was to the industrial economy. Harbingers of change.
But understand when I say "Entrepreneur" I am not simply referring to a person who starts a business. No, I am referring to the need to be more entrepreneurial in everything we do. You can be an employee, an artist, anything and you need to start thinking entrepreneurialy. The world no longer needs people who can follow "standard operating procedures" and with the rise of automation it soon won't have use for them. What it needs are people who can think laterally and combine abundant resources in new ways to create value.
In many ways this trend and the trend of decentralization go hand-in-hand. Traditional gate keepers are being torn down, long standing centralized institutions are being blown apart and we need people to step into the chaos and create something beautiful. We need Entrepreneurs.