Well after reading a bunch of books 📚 about the future, history, neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence 🤖 , behavioral biology 🐰, urban planning and interface designing, I am finally ready to do some crystal-balling ⚽ about industries of the short term future.

These are based on my own opinions and observations from reading.

So according to statisitcs, the world’s GDP per capita is increasing logarithimically 💵 💵 💵 . As such I am going to make this totally unscientific conclution that:

Earning more -> more money to trade for time ⌚ -> living longer -> more things to think/worry about 😕 -> need more meaningful things to do 😂

So here are the rising industries according to my prediction. I give the timeline of these industries(some has already started) becoming larger and larger from NOW till the next 10-30 years.

It will start from the wealthier countries and slowly move towards lower income countries. 🇺🇸 🇲🇾

I also make the assumption that normal humans will either spend their money and time on one of these:

1) Themselves 2) Their immediate family (parents & children)

Hence, these are the industries that I predict will be growing in the near future and it all ties back to having more money, more time and wanting a more meaningful life.

For the individual:

  • Customized probiotic/vitamin/nutrition supplement based on your ancestry & DNA 🍏
  • Workout classes and routine designed based on your ancestry & DNA
  • Automation of transportation entirely
  • VR/AR/holographic dating, companionship & pornography 👭👬👫
  • VR/AR/holographic therapy for mental conditions ♥️
  • VR/AR/holographic calls/conference for more meaningful interactions
  • Mainstream usage of lab grown meat 🍖 or alternative protein sources
  • Mainstream utilization of nootropics, micro-dosing and recreational drugs ⚕
  • High speed suborbital transportation that gets you from New York to Shanghai in 40minutes 🚀
  • Spiritual bootcamps 😇
  • Meditation and self-awareness classes 🕵️

For the family:

  • High tech prenatal care
  • Better imaging quality for prenatal care
  • Earlier detection of abnormality in pregnancies through AI/machine learning
  • Alternative birthing methods 👶
  • Gene editing for embryos ⚕️
  • Highly customizable early childhood education that can range from a more tech-centric to a more character building one👱👦👶
  • Parenting with the help of technology and deeper understanding of cognitive functions of the brain
  • Alternative parenting style based on different psychological framework (Cooperative framework)

For the elderly:

  • Robot care givers for the elderly 🤖
  • Mainstream production of exoskeleton to aid movement
  • Organ and tissue farms to replace failing ones ♥
  • Mechanical parts to enhance biological organs and tissues 🚙
  • Whole retirement cities/towns with facilities & activities customized for the elderly 🎄
  • Modern social nursing homes that emphasize autonomy and independence

Anymore to add? So given my future prediction, what kind of skills should you equip yourself with in the future?

Well I am not sure myself but being in science, technology, medicine and clinical psychology seems like the best bet yet ;)