1000 Year Biz Planning: Who'll Solve Runaway IoT? Recycling/EMFs, Increase in Things Changing Versions?

1000 Year Biz Planning: Who'll Solve Runaway IoT? Recycling/EMFs, Increase in Things, Changing Versions?

Once Toasters Are Digital & Connected, will we have a new
version we must switch to every time IoT op systems change?
Multiply x 7 bn people and millions of things that presently
might last 20 yrs -- suddenly having to turnover every couple
of years. Can you afford it? Where will we toss the old
versions after the first few 100 years? Photo: Morgue Files.

"Only you can control your future." -- Dr. Seuss

7 Questions about the hidden opportunities & planet-wide challenges inherent in our move into a global (interplanetary?) Internet of Things (IoT)?

Who'll get there first to solve the "unintended consequences" before the new ecological/environmental overload? Prime target for 1000 Year Business Planning Entrepreneurs. 

• 1 WILL IoT MEAN OUT-OF-CONTROL INCREASE IN # of THINGS HEADED ANNUALLY FOR LANDFILLS/RECYCLING -- JUST AS HUMAN POPULATION INCREASES EXPONENTIALLY?
  
  If all "things" go digital -- will they have to be tossed & replaced constantly as technology changes annually?
  
  I'd personally get into the "creative-recycling/upcycling-of- electronics" business fast. Or the Moon/Mars-colonization landfills business. If I were an enterprising young entrepreneur...
  
  Think 1000 Years & 7 bn people as the starting point.  Digital "things" mean a toaster that could have lasted for decades will now have to be tossed in a landfill (or a recycle scheme will have to be invented). Because it will now last only as long as the IoT operating system/connectivity scheme it was designed for.
  
  Who are the entrepreneurs and enterprises who'll solve this -- starting with imagining a 1000 Year Business Plan for a sustainable Earth ecology/environment/health as #'s of "things" multiply exponentially?
  
  Might this be not just a "nice to have" but mandatory for sustainability of life systems for the next 1000 Years? No more "throw away" of electronics permitted. Who will be the Entrepreneurs who solve that?

But wait! -- 

"1000 Year Business Planning: 5 Entrepreneurial Analog StartUps."

S.H. Rodman, CEO, Right Brain Aerobics

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"In every industry, big problems are just big StartUps waiting to happen." S.H. Rodman

Whatever it is -- think many decades or centuries ahead, and begin the StartUp now for the Analog Off-the-Grid versions. 

1000 Year Business Plan thinking at its best. You'll be more successful than you think. Maybe outrageously successful. (Note:  List of the world's oldest companies...)  

1000 Year Entrepreneurial Thinking: Whatever it is, scoop up all of the Analog versions now. Get creative with modifications for super-ecological eras -- sustainability that lasts 1000's of years, or bust. Literally.

(Side Note: These ideas may sound simplistic or crazy, but in my corporate days I reported in at the CIO level and I tended to be known as the "crazy ideas" strategist who focused most on ideas that proved to be running about 5 - 10 years ahead of the curve. This was a habit. It was also a reputation because they tended to pan out as trends.  

I was so early to nanotech, for instance--actually got to meet Eric Drexler and Christine Peterson--amazing conversations, amazing people anticipating caution as well as how to manufacture at the micro level, decades out (Foresight.org in S.F.) 

Right now I sense that extreme "sustainability" vectors will become THE vectors -- and analog is going to be reinvented or transformed to accomodate new forms of communication and lifestyle -- mechanics transformed where tech isn't sustainable 1000's of years -- from an ecological life systems perspective. Get there early and put on your "right brain" thinking cap -- we're not likely to be in logical/linear territory much longer... 

Right now I'm working on mind-shift to higher creative intelligence without using any chemistry or new tech and thus the Right Brain Aerobics and Right Brain Think Tank experiments. No time to work on new StartUp ideas. So I'm putting any that pop up into this 1000 Year Business Plan blogs -- a useful bin for forward thinking things.... Hope they might spark an idea for you here and there... Integrating concepts to create a long-lasting planetary and interplanetary future. If you're thinking along these lines, you can submit a Guest Blog -- time's awastin' even in 1000 Year paradigms. sandra@RightBrainAerobics.com -- SHR)

5 Entrepreneurial Analog StartUp ideas for today...

More open-sourcing of innovative ideas -- just give attribution -- and go for it!  

1000 Year Planning -- may include a lot of Analog Alternatives -- and Analog Cars may become a "hot" item, as "car hacking" is on the rise...

Hey, if you're going to drive around in a moving computer, essentially, you're going to experience more than one kind of "crash" as well as being "hacked" -- or getting a "Car Virus." Will there be massive security breaches of -- Cars... 

Crazy things you'll become familiar with that could lead some to Analog Versions... 

Digital Car Security... Is going to be a new industry. Get there fast. Well, before the paparzzi. 

Digital Cars are Paparazzi heaven...

Corollaries: Connected Cars are bound to lead to a Facebook for Cars. 

Can your car Tweet? In the Internet-of-Things it could tweet your Toaster--but could it be hacked?   

The prepared #Entrepreneur will be ready for every possibility. And potential StartUp growing from the unintended consequences of trying to digitally connect everything without thinking first about the, well, unintended consequences.

1. Analog Car Rentals... Or Sales.

Want to offer an alternative to Highway Robbery and Car Hacking?

Share your Analog Car with others or go Off-the-Digital-Grid in your car. An Uber for Analog Cars. Or maybe Uber will add Analog car rides.  Just for fun. 

(Humans: Analog Car Drivers...after Driverless Cars are mandated...)

Like untraceable pre-paid cell phones, the Analog Car may become trendy for "get aways" in every sense. 

Your Classic Car taking up space in your Classic Car Showcase garage? It could be a Luxury Analog Car Rental.

Possible Memes...

• Highway Getaway
• Have Car, Will Travel Off-the-Digital Grid
• Off-the-Grid Living will be incomplete without your Off-the-Digital-Grid Car...

Entrepreneurs: Buy up/modify analog cars for possible future modification -- or Soap-Box-Derby hobbyists -- could have a field day.

Entrepreneurs: Solar Cars re-engineered from used cars?  Unhackable and cheap. But wait -- how about...

Ultimate Marketing: Social Media from Mars? Interplanetary MBA? & NASA Prepares for Space Living...

"We will start inhabiting outer space," says Angelo Vermeulen, crew commander of a NASA-funded Mars simulation. "It might take 50 years or it might take 500 years, but it’s going to happen."  Angelo and his team are already focused on a 500 Year Business Plan.  Why not a 1000 Year Business Plan?

Is it time to activate your Interplanetary Commerce & Interplanetary Social Media imagination?

Watch Angelo Vermeulen's TED GLobal  Talk, 2014: "How to Go to Space without Going to Space."  

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Ah -- a whole new take on Interplanetary Career Planning and "Extraterrestrial Life"... All Astronauts who travel to the moon or Mars are temporarily "extraterrestrial" -- will your great grandchild working on a Moon project be an "extraterrestrial engineer"? 

Will "The Ultimate Marketing Plan," considered now, have us conceiving of designs for interplanetary social media/communication now...

Angelo Vermeulen's crew is already looking at creating new kinds of "sustainability": Growing food to sustain you on Mars...? But what about Social Media Sustainability? Sustaining your TRULY LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS...? Tweeting from Mars, marketing from Mars (imagine how valuable Mars location videos could be for advertising or entertainment?) 

"Interstellar," the movie, raises the issues of time travel and non-local consciousness communication methodologies -- as practical problems that we will have to solve. But with different minds. The very act of non-local travel changes consciousness -- as most Astronauts have reported.  

But...

Welcome to The 1000 Year Business Plan: Make It Matter, Make It Last, Make It Destiny

What if you went to an MBA School and every class was focused on 1000 year planning? Who would you be, and what societies would we produce? (See Exercise at end.)


The 1000 Year Business Plan, 1000 Year Financial Planning (who's to say that you're not planning the financial future for your family 10 generations ahead right now, with every personal choice? Who's to say there will be such a thing as "financial planning" in shared interplanetary civilizations 10 generations hence?) What will there be?

It's about to get real serious real fast. We're passing the Silicon barrier and Intel and everybody else are looking for something else. Are you in the "something else" business yet? No? Get thinking about it because it's here.

“New streets should be Twitter friendly and be named with hashtags up front. I’d build a house on ‪#‎LoversLane.” -- Jarod Kintz, Write like no one is reading…

Who Moved My Qubit? What's a Computer??

We're approaching Quantum Computing (Google just hit a milestone in development) and you'll have to learn qubits -- "Who Moved My Qubit?" will be a popular new book...

Though who knows if Quantum Computing will be around in 1000 years -- or computing at all? "What's a computer?" -- they might ask! In Grace Hopper's day in early programming, the women who did the computing were called "the computers." 


Do They Have Swamp Gas on Ceres?

As we orbit the asteroid Ceres with its two sparkling "mystery lights" -- goodness only knows what THOSE are (I mean what they really are; wonder if they have swamp gas on Ceres?) -- and as we work on colonization missions for Mars and the Moon proceed anon: Well!

Wouldn't a 1000 Year Car make sense if you're going to live in deep space? Hey -- it takes a LONG TIME to get a part from Earth if your carburetor goes out!

Read Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan"... Great pre-planning tips for writing a 1000 Year Business Plan. Don't let this happen to you!)

Want a big Brain Stretch right now? Want to spark your "quantum leap innovators mind" -- jump into a new timeline!

Want to get a new "lease" on long-term life? Start Writing Your 1000 Year Business Plan now and watch what happens to your daily "To Do List"... to your sense of what is really innovative over eons, what is really creative when it has to last 1000 years?

What will 3015 business planning look like?

Will there be business?

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