This is what disruption looks like. Closing in on the leveling out on the S-curve a few years from now, and the fossil-fueled cars will be a novelty. It makes me wonder, what will we be talking about next? I have a hunch: Prosperity.
When we talk EVs, we tend to think it’s mostly about a new kind of personal ownership of an appliance that will take us from A to B, but it’s not. It’s only the A to B part that matters. Firstly, at scale the cost of EVs will fall to such lows that was never possible with ICE vehicles simply due to differences in complexity and fueling infrastructure, thus making personal transportation affordable to maybe an order of magnitude more people on earth on this premise alone.
If you grew up in a place where it is possible to at least take the bus reliably every day to the nearest town to work, go to school, or trade, you may not intuitively appreciate fully the way the world is about to change. If on the other hand you grew up in a village so far away from any reliable infrastructure that it is impossible to even think about a daily routine outside of living on the soil under your feet, you will probably intuitively understand what this would mean.
When the world’s information, energy, and transportation systems become cheap, abundant, and distributed, prosperity will spread. At some point in the future, I think sooner than most others will believe, there will be much less fighting over land and resources in general, and for the first time in human history we might finally achieve what we really and truly want for ourselves: Peace.
I could have ended it here, and most of you would have thought, what a douche, what does he know about what the don’t-haves think? He lives in one of the richest countries of the world, drives a Tesla, and thinks he knows anything? Well, yeah, I can understand you would think that.
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