Electric car. Free charging?

I just heard a podcast that stated that as we transform over into mass usage of electric cars over the next several years, which I believe we will do, that superstores like Walmart would likely offer free charging to get customers in the store. Makes sense to me. I think that will happen.

Rapid charging technologies are hoping to get charging times down to less than an hour and at a cost of a buck or two to recharge a car. Walmart I think would gladly pay a buck or two to have customers browsing their isles for an hour or so and more often than not making purchases.

Oil industry prices and profits are now peaking. Look for some major breakthroughs in 2009 in battery technology in the automobile industry and look for oil prices to level off or even begin to decline. Within the next 10 years the day will come when ExxonMoBillions won't be able to give away a barrel of oil and people throughout the world will be scratching their heads wondering why it took so long and why so many nations allowed the days of fossil fuels to go on so long and do some much damage to our precious environment.

Global wireless internet

Free global wireless world wide web access will happen. I believe that over half of the world's population will have free wireless access to the internet no later than the year 2020.

Free internet access will do more, and do it more quickly, to bring economic equity to people throughout the world than anything else in human history. With free wireless access and the price of a computer dropping to probably less than a tank of gas all barriers will be removed preventing the world's poorest from being educated.

Of course we all know that education is the key that can unlock unlimited and endless possibilities and the human species will never make a better investment in its future than providing the framework that will provide all of the world's people with access to unlimited information.

Stronger and enforceable international justice system is needed.

I believe withing the next decade or so a strong push will occur for a much stronger international justice system and a much more comprehensive creation of international laws.

Technology is connecting the world, bringing us all much closer together, if not geographically we are closer together as far as communication and interaction. I believe within the next 20 to 30 years, certainly by the year 2050 that an international justice system will be advanced, developed and enforceable enough that the need for national armies will begin to go away.

By the turn of the next century national armies will no longer exist. The developed and enforceable international justice system will be the instrument that nations use to resolve disputes such as boundaries, resources, etcetera.

The trillions of dollars spent annually on national defense by nations across the world can then be spent on fighting disease, housing and nutrition for everyone, etcetera.

Pay for music... are you kidding?

Ten years from now the idea of selling music will be just as foreign as the idea of giving it away was ten years ago.