A book I read on 2022.01.17
Time does not wait for us. People just see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear — Judge Taylor, Harper Lee, in "To Kill a Mockingbird." p10. The elderly population will outnumber the young population, and women will own more wealth than men. Asia's middle-class market will become larger than the United States and Europe combined. We will also be surrounded by more industrial robots than factory workers, more computers than human brains, more sensing devices than human eyes, and currencies more diverse than the number of nations.
P12. By 2030, sub-Saharan Africa will be one of the most densely populated regions in the world. Around 2030, the Asian market will grow so enormously that the center of gravity of the world's consumer market will shift eastward. By population ratio, within the next decade the generation that takes up the largest share will be the elderly population aged 60 and over. Those who currently hold over 80 percent of America's wealth are the largest consumer group worldwide, creating the so-called "silver market."
p20. Edward de Bono's concept of lateral thinking is "to consider a way to change the situation itself rather than clinging to the given situation." Essentially, it is a method of reframing the question and attacking the problem from the side.
Table of contents: If you know the birth rate, you can see the future / A generation more important than the millennials / The birth of a new middle class / Stronger and wealthier women / Cities are at the forefront of change / The present and future that technology changes / A world without ownership / Too many currencies. p29 In 2030, South Asia including India will have the largest population > Africa > East Asia including China. p.55 Google, Intel, eBay, Facebook, and LinkedIn and Tesla; they revolutionized the U.S. economy, and their founders or co-founders are of immigrant origin. "Letting go of everything familiar and making a new start in another place. To succeed you need to blend into the new society and acquire skills. Sometimes you must make choices on the spur of the moment, and like immigration itself, it requires bold plans and decision"; psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman say the reason we make wrong decisions on various problems in life is that our thinking is influenced by "loss aversion bias." We choose not to lose 10 dollars over gaining 10 dollars.