by Ron McDaniel | Apr 17, 2017 | Disruptive Future, Economics, Future
This lifestyle chart illustrated levels of standards of living as we will be looking at them going forward in a world of fewer jobs and more AI and automation. Instead of trying to estimate standards of living by income levels, this chart looks at characteristics...
by Ron McDaniel | Apr 9, 2017 | Disruptive Future
Would putting humans on an assemble line be such a bad thing? This is not an article about human trafficking or people as “things”. Although that terrible problem would be eliminated if we were to adopt a factory methodology to human lives. I know it sounds nuts but...
by Ron McDaniel | Apr 5, 2017 | Disruptive Future, Sharing Economy
When I wrote my first piece about the Rise of the Sharing Economy it was very well received and very popular. However, some people commented that they did not want to “have less” and share more. No doubt the idea of sharing seems un-American to some...
by Ron McDaniel | Mar 31, 2017 | Disruptive Future, Future
I fully expect that the things I write about will create a lot of anger, trepidation and fury. People will snarl in the comments, rage against the ideas that their industry is meaningless or their work is a false prophet meant to keep them busy and derive profits...
by Ron McDaniel | Mar 29, 2017 | Disruptive Future
Value-Adding Work is work that adds value to the happiness and well-being of humans. It does not exist for the aggregation of wealth for wealth’s sake nor does it exist to promote more jobs for the sake of having more jobs. For this reason, we deem insurance a...
by Ron McDaniel | Mar 27, 2017 | Disruptive Future
I struggled with how to come up with a “brand” for my ideas that is neither too optimistic nor too pessimistic. Finally I landed on “The Disruptive Future” as the perfect combination of both. This is a quick article on why it is a more realistic way of looking at the...
