The coffin home concept gets exported from China to the rest of the world for the poorest in our communities. This becomes a common use for repurposed office space that no longer needed as work-from-home technology is far superior at that point. The richest see loads of personal automation and AI assistance in their daily lives. Most single family homes have solar or wind generation capability. Suburban sprawl expands much farther out as well. Water is the most precious resource by then, so most households have personal water treatment and recycling.

I think that it will create many jobs that may not have been there previously. I don’t know many companies that have teams of statisticians manually piling over mountains of data looking for trends that might influence their decision making. Most companies still don’t make many data driven decisions outside of financials analysis. I think we are going to see a rise in the sheer amount of data being generated and stored (so DBAs will be in higher demand), the structures will need to become more normalized (architects and developers will be very busy), the AIs will need to be trained (data scientists will be a HOT commodity), and there is probably going to be an evolving skill set of someone that can kinda bridge many of these areas and also somehow relate the research back to the ultimate benefit of the business.

I’m fairly certain I saw this truck on I45 last week. We were speculating about what it was because it’s telemetry gear is pretty eye catching.