How about a break from all the fucking crypto currency threads?
I haven't been here in like a year and that's what literally 2/3rds of the board is.
So what are some industries and businesses (preferably aside from robotics) that you envision experiencing significant growth and investment over the next 50 years?
Lithium mining and processing is going to be growing for decades, it's the single best metal for batteries and the next 2 generations of batteries being researched need it. Even the theoretical best possible battery is Lithium / Fluorine.
AR/VR/Drones/Mapping/Mobile devices for another decade/low power electric motors/Batteries and energy storage/Composite building materials/Industrial Hemp and cellulose/Food/Water purification/Homesteading equipment and knowledge/Food again/Food again.
who fucking cares when we're making 200% a week with shitcoins?
Graphite and lithium mining.
en.wikipedia.org
Saw this once mentioned here.
Hahahahaaha, but seriously this looks like Elon's Spruce Goose.
Well the usecase of the hyperloop is travelling significantly faster and greener.
yeah all things 3D.... this is the tip of it though (for normies) -
my.matterport.com
not intended to be a plug but yah all things interactive ... dat ol third dimension...
3d printing, virtual reality
Good call, the guys driving around scanning everything will make a killing.
I just don't see VR taking hold, I just think it's gonna be like motion controls-Live fast and die young [spoiler]still doesn't mean I can't invest in techfags NEEDING the latest gear[/spoiler]
I strongly feel that quantum computation might be a big deal in the comming years.
long term? Desalination and solar power tech.
>Coming years
More like coming decades. If the boffins have just figured it out on a macro scale, it'll be a while before we can start investing in any consumer scale products
>desalination
True
>solar power
memetier, extremely unreliable. Could find some kind of hold but chances are we are living in the golden era of solar investment. When tidal and fission get their arses in gear solar should be done
Q-comps are much closer than most people realize, I give it 5 years tops. research.ibm.com
youtube.com
It's all a con
I think we should invest in companies that do surgeries on traps, gender reassignment surgery will spike 200% in the next few years as degeneracy spikes!
So maybe medical companies in Thailand?
I'm gonna start a "float tank", or sensory deprivation tank, center with my shitcoin gainzzz. Easy money as my immediate area doesn't have one + it's a college town.
I don't know, in my experience 'closer than you think' translates to 'give us money so we can attempt to rush a barely feasible product'. If we were living in that reality, nuclear energy should be on a macro scale-but alas it's not along with my investments.
5 years is very, very optimistic for any marginal profit from investment. Sure, it might be in an alpha state and available in 5 years, but I would give at least 20 before it becomes a household product with a safe profit margin. Like the old videogame console majigs, it'll start out weak then appeal to a larger market when competition kicks in after a few years
go back to your containment
If you even are serious, most initial reports suggest we are having an upcoming right/libertarian leaning western Gen Z. If it is true, I would foresee a small rises in such obvious things as the commercial weapons market and small drops in things such as cosmetics. I wouldn't put much on the line at this point however, it's all just initial predictions and it's gonna take at least a decade to really hit the market
>before it becomes a household product
They'll never be a household product, they are useless from traditional programs / multi media / vidya. They are a specialized super-computers for running a shitload of simple calculations simultaneously eg. simulating airflow or material deformation.
Ford, Boeing, BAE ect. will own one but you never will.
Rising porn industry, increased degeneracy, increased propogation of accepting clear mental illnesses, rise of Veeky Forums traffic
All signs point to good investments
I'll start the ticker $TRAP you interested?
Back when /pol/ wasn't infested with larpers.
58.44Tb storage had the exact same predictions back in the day, but alas look now, we have techfags NEEDING the best product on the market, despite the fact it has no tangible difference.
I will give props where it's due, if you are referring to non-commercial usage, then yeah give it 5 years before it gets popular. But even then I just don't see much profit to be made when there are more reliable, profitable things to invest in. Reliable shit like GMO farming and memes like african based weapons manufacturers will probs get you more bang for your buck in the long run.
>rising porn industry
>rise of Veeky Forums traffic
>wants me to take them seriously
Yeah, fuck off >>/pol/. You died with #gamergate and rotted away with r_TheDonald. Stay in your filthy fucking nupol containment and don't shit up the other boards as you now always seem to do.
The agriculture industry.
I'm being serious here, if you can automate crop harvesting you found your golden goose.
Businesses shifting from the stock market to cryptocurrency has a higher potential growth within the next decade. Material things such as food and guns, solar technology, construction materials, clothes, medicine, radioactive protection kit, anything that can survive you of WW3 are growth potential.