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Top Ten Predictions for 2022
Mark Anderson, CEO | December 9, 2021
- Battery technology responds to the most intense financial and innovation pressures in tech history, leading to radical improvements in both energy density and safety. New materials, solid-state, cheaper, faster, better. Huge fortunes are bet, lost, and made.
- Rapid, accurate Covid detection will be recognized as the necessary complement to vaccination, with both being understood as required in order to avoid continuing health and economic damage. New math and Pattern Discovery will provide the detection improvements needed to keep the world going on both fronts.
- Everyone makes chips, and chips are for everyone. We leave the era of chip monopolies and rapidly move into a completely new era of technological innovation at the most basic, often commercial, levels. Forget Intel; welcome Ford and GM. Forget PCs, servers, and smartphones and welcome Smart Everything.
- We accept the world of Absolute Insecurity, from IoT and home networks to ad tracking, the surveillance state, and completely invasive vendor behavior. While security companies remain prosperous, no one and nothing is trusted to be secure. This has a deep psychological effect on citizens, customers, and partners, in addition to the mammoth hidden tax put onto people, companies, and transactions by this forever-condition of theft and loss.
- China becomes a pariah state, at last seen for what it really is and really does, to its own people and to others. Disengagement by the free world moves from a so-called impossibility two years ago to staged inevitability for all who can protect themselves.
- SpaceX turns out to be well-named, since it now owns the commercial-space space. No one else is even close, from Virgin to NASA to Boeing and the Launch Alliance. Outside the Earth’s atmosphere, Elon is an emperor.
- Consumer spending goes up in the West, as too many years in Covid isolation drives enhanced consumption, particularly of luxury items, for oneself. This category is led by cars, cars, cars, and cars, with lots of expensive art, rare scotch, and other collectibles close behind as the category of Alternative Assets investment explodes, hedging against inflation.
- The not-so-well-hidden internal contraction and/or collapse of China’s domestic economic machine accelerates, with “tells” moving beyond property development and related markets and into an increasing number of sectors, with higher bankruptcy rates and more desperate (if secret) corporate bailouts by the CCP. There are no private companies now in China. And new dictator-for-life Xi, although worshipped by children brainwashed on Xi Thought, is no longer the popular guy he so recently was.
- The climate struggle is joined. Faced with certain damage, agreed science, and the threat of new mega events – and encouraged by international consensus – the world seriously begins the exciting and painful move away from generations of terracide. Things go faster than predicted only a year ago.
- The world economic war for a middle class becomes a defining, and now public, fight and characterizes a policy pivot away from globalism and the ownership class and toward the neglected goals of reshoring manufacturing, restoring jobs, and increasing middle-class incomes.
About Mark R. Anderson
Mark Anderson is the CEO of Strategic News Service (SNS) and publisher of the weekly SNS Global Report on Technology and the Global Economy, read by Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Vint Cerf, Michael Dell, Craig Venter, Bill Janeway, Paul Jacobs, Leroy Hood, and technology executives and investors worldwide.
He is the only person to have publicly predicted both the 2008 global financial collapse and the oil price collapse, the two most important economic events of modern times.
Mark is also the founding CEO of startup Pattern Computer Inc. and chair of the Future in Review (FiRe) conference – now in its 18th year – which The Economist has called “the best technology conference in the world.” He is the author of The Pattern Future: Finding the World’s Great Secrets and Predicting the Future Using Pattern Discovery and co-founder of the new Pattern Recognition Laboratory at UC San Diego.
He belongs to, or has provided advice to, the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, the Global Advisory Council of the mPedigree Network (Ghana), SwedeTrade, The Family Circle (Europe), the NSA, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the DHS, the NGA, the State Department, USTR, the White House, the NSC, GCHQ, MI5, the British Cabinet Minister’s Office, and industry-leading firms including Dell, Microsoft, Google, Symantec, Nuance Communications, the ESA, NASA, and others.