Welcome to One Finite Planet.
Rather than simply reporting news, this site takes a far deeper dive into key topics where rapid change is shaping our future, as this can allow seeing what is coming ahead of time and how news fits into the puzzle as well as revealing surprises.
More on the theme of this site, the philosophy behind content, the structure and how to find content on this site, are all available here.
Instead of a news or blog site with lots of new first edition pages, the focus on deeper dives into topics means new information mostly comes as updates to add more depth even more depth to an existing ‘webpaper‘. So, check latest updates and, if page is of interest, check for, or request, updates that page.
Content is grouped into topics, which are in turn grouped into subtopics with the top-level topics listed below.
Accessorised Evolution has enabled humans to reach the Anthropocene, the cusp of outgrowing the planet, and facing the disruptions of the emergence of AI, reaching peak population and climate change. All this combined means the early 21st century will be a period of profound disruption, which can also deliver great opportunities.
Rather than simply reporting news, this site takes a far deeper dive into how news fits into the puzzle This is a site examining these disruptions and what is behind them. More on the theme of this site, the philosophy behind content, the structure and how to find content on this site, are all available here.
Instead of a blog where new information results in a new post, where possible new research and new information arrives as new updates to an existing ‘webpaper‘, leading to bigger pages but with all information available in one place.
Content is grouped into topics, which are in turn grouped into subtopics with the top-level topics listed below.
Topics
From Anthropocene to Anthrobocene!
How can an unprepared economic system cope with moving from basically zero AI and zero humanoid robots to pervasive AI and billions of humanoid robots within a span of two decades?
Conflict & Deception:
We live on an overpopulated planet where governments use immigration to boost their population while blaming ‘illegals’ for the very real negative consequences for their voters.
What would it take to resolve the conflict and end the deception?
Population & Immigration
Conflict & Deception:
We live on an overpopulated planet where governments use immigration to boost their population while blaming ‘illegals’ for the very real negative consequences for their voters.
What would it take to resolve the conflict and end the deception?
Either way, disruption is imminent & preparation advisable.
Influence:
There is no free lunch media, and they use your data to make you pay.
Plus, why votes may not stop Trump.
The human difference behind why our possessions or “accessories” from clothes, homes, vehicles, phones etc., do matter and can help bring us happiness.
Population: yes we have overpopulation but this one is full of surprises, includong surprising economic implictions.
The ‘poster child’ of environment discussion breaks out into its own topic,
Beyond the climate, the popular issues of habitat destruction, extinctions, and plastic waste, there are still suprises that are overlooked, as well as predictions and analyss on covid-19/pandemics that may surprise.
remember when a photograph was proof? Is a video still evidence? What
can we still be certain of in the world of fake news and outrage media
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, is about the likely future outcomes. In the first section, the outcomes are those likely in response to challenges (or “threats” in SWAT terminology), while those in the second section are pure opportunities. section 2, “opportunities”.
Continually updated evolving book on a set of 8 topic groups, that i have found to constain surprises, and key insights into the likely future.
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This site started in 2015, for reasons outlined in ‘why’.
Topics here have evolved to now be grouped under threats and opportunities. All contain subjects I have found to surprise, give insight into our future, or both.
, and have evolved to cover subjects i have found
the future
Not advocacy of what people should do, nor outrage about what people are doing, but a collection of observations that i find either suprising, revealing about the future, or both.
Topics and Subtopics.
Tesla Enigma & Musk Dummy Spit April 2024: No longer a car company? What will Tesla become?
BYD now targets Toyota’s “step to EVs” as DM-i + DMO EV hybrids go global in 2024 with BYD Shark & Sealion 6.
Ideal/optimum human population: How many people can, or should, each country, and the whole planet support?
EVs stalling in 2024: End of the road, Speedbump, or buyers caught between Trump, Musk and China?
Humanoid Robots 2024: Products and brands.
EVs stalling in 2024: End of the road, Speedbump, or buyers caught between Trump, Musk and China?
Depending on who you ask, EV sales could be either booming or grinding to a halt. Even AI answered: “The web results are contradictory and show different perspectives”, and Ford on same day the same company reported record EV sales and a plan to shelve EVs due to lack of buyer interest.
So, what is really happening? Can biases be sidestepped to uncover a real answer? As is often the case, reality is a mix of both answers. Globally, EV sales are still growing, but growing slower.
Tesla Enigma & Musk Dummy Spit April 2024: No longer a car company? What will Tesla become?
In April 2024, following a disappointing below expectations Q1 sales result, Tesla began layoffs that could reach up to 20% of its workforce, focus on “Robotaxi” in priority over a new more mass-market entry-level model sometimes referred by the press as the “model 2”, and seen the departure of many Tesla senior personnel who Musk previous had share the stage with him at media events.
Can the EV world really afford see this move to positioning a company key to having brought EVs this far as a “not a car company”. What is happening? Are the layoffs etc. Elon Musk having a dummy spit, or does Tesla face big problems?
Population & immigration: Conflict and deception.
Immigration is short-term symptom of a potential long-term problem of the challenges to targeting an ideal population.
We live an overpopulated planet where many governments use immigration to boost what would be otherwise falling population numbers while blaming ‘illegals’ for the very real negative consequences for their citizens from the boost to the population.
It can be argued that reaching sustainability would address the question of overpopulation, but what would it take to end the need for deception, resolve the conflict, and have everyone work towards the conditions experienced in the countries with highest levels of happiness?
AI Robots: From Anthropocene to Anthrobocene!
We are moving from a world or basically zero AI and zero robots to pervasive AI and billions of robots within a span of two decades. Sci-fi has provided decades of simulations of what could happen if computers were smart enough to interact like humans, and now examples like Figure 01 show it is not just simulation anymore. Imagine a world where everyone who currently has a car has an AI humanoid robot as this coming Anthrobocene.
Chat-GPT launched in late 2022 and made headlines throughout 2023, but the impact of AI reaching a tipping point has only just begun. That AI will impact not only the virtual world, but also the physical world was highlighted by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sharing the stage at the Nividia AI presentation with 9 humanoid robots highlighting how significant the 3rd most valuable company in the word (as of March 2024) sees the opportunity for biped anthrobotic robots provided credibly to predictions billion of these will exist within around a decade.
This is an introduction and overview of what is happening as countries like the US and China look to send AI and robots to workplaces, factories and homes around the world, and digital humans spread through world online and entertainment industry, and the proliferation of AI and robots could make Antrobocene a more apt epoch.
Humanoid Robots 2024: Products and brands.
These are the robots and companies behind the robots for those that took centre stage with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Nvidia AI event in March 2024, together with robots absent but still significant.
While some companies on this list are in production with customer service and other robots, no company is in 2024 yet producing biped robots in the sufficient quantity to yet profit from biped robot production, and considering Tesla, founded in 2003, did not report a full year profit until 2020, profits may take a while.
Significantly, some are beginning mass production of humanoid robots in 2024, and those some include companies like Fourier, UBTech and Unitree that have already had other robots in mass production for a decade.
The economy is about consumer spending not production: Confirmed by Swiftonomics.
All economics seem to agree that the Taylor Swift Eras tour boosted the economy everywhere she went, but while it is clear that there was a boost to spending, it is not so clear people benefit beyond getting to enjoy a concert.
This is a look at whether, at least in some cases, factors that boost an economy may do nothing to increase wealth within that economy and could even reduce wealth within that economy.
Welcome to One Finite World. As opposed to blog posts that convey a persons thoughts at one point in time, most pages here continue to evolve to be improved and updated over time, and are explorations of ideas being examined to discover answers, by career analyst of future trends with a background in science.me to One Finite World. These pages are explorations of a variety of topics from a futurist perspective, and unlike blog posts, have their content updated and improved over time.
The pages are not “this is what I think”, but more “here is the information I have, so what is the answer, and am I missing things?”.
What is here that might be of interest? And how to find it? The summaries, surprises and myths are of potential interest to everyone, while other content is more specialised. The search box and categories to right may help, but the contents below intended to best facilitatinallow finding anything and is organised from general interest through to the more specific as the intended best path to navigate to find content of interest, with the most common theme be .
Population. My journey to understanding population and overpopulation.
- Normal Population growth mirrors what happens with cells within our bodies, there is growth to maturity, growth for repair, but otherwise, there is stability.
- Our recent population explosion was not normal, and resulting in an unsustainable population without major concessions to how we live.
- We are at peak child and approaching Peak Humanity:
- We have only one finite planet, and it is already full of life. Further growth of the human population, requires a reduction in the population of other life.
- Further population growth will erode quality of life for all but a small elite group.
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- We have only one finite world, which can only host a finite amount of life. One of the biggest questions is how much of the life we share the planet with should be other humans, and how much do we leave for other living things?
- Is increasing the percentage of life that is us humans essential for economic growth, or from a certain point, does it means a smaller share each of an increasingly damaged planet?
- Does the qualify of life suffer for all without the wealth to increase their share?
- A summary of the findings from exploration of the population explosion, the impact of future population, and how this elephant in the room taboo topic is not only, as discussed by David Attenborough, critical to the natural world.
- The economic future as the battle intensifies between those running the humanity equivalent to a chicken farm, and the masses or ‘caged hens’ producing the golden eggs.
- Key highlights and surprises from deeper explorations of contemporary topics such as:
Will Electric Cars Change the Balance of Economic and Military Power In the World?
Covid-19, and how long will vaccinations against Covid-19 be required?- Social media uses the power of AI to increase polarisation, dissatisfaction and outrage. Why?
The Earth has only recently supported life on land, and that support will not continue for much longer..- Why do CO2 levels create a climate crisis now, when it was not a problem back when there were dinosaurs?
UFOs, are real! Now even Obama, Republicans and the current US government are spilling the beans.
- In depth explorations of a range of contemporary topics for those interested in the topics:
- Population, Overpopulation, and the 300 year population explosion.
- Polarisation and Conflict, and Left vs Right: The ideology of conflict and we all get along in a world where polarisation has now been monetized.
- Wealth Creation and Distribution: Earths almost 8 billion needs food, clothing, housing and more.
- Electric Cars and the changes to society once stop being too expensive for mainstream buyers.
- ‘Posts’ that reflect a chronology of events:
Trump and the 2020 US election.- Covid-19, from first being alarmed back in Jan 2020 through an observation of the pandemic from Australia.
- Science and Technology Explorations.
- Science, from science background and relativity made simple through to theories as the cutting edge.
- Technology, ‘Free Technology‘ and Robotics.
- Electric Vehicles.
- Product Reviews: Of potential interest to those looking for information on a product I have reviewed.
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.”
Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)