Ballard wrote:I guess that I cannot really belive that we will all switch to electric powered cars.
I doubt many of us think we'll still all be driving. We might have some powered personal transport, but we simply won't have the spare energy to cart around a ton of metal whenever we go somewhere. Now, electrical assist on a bike might be a different matter....
At the end of the day, while it's interesting to guess about how the future transport will work out, we are unlikely to make correct predictions. Consider past predictions and missed ideas:
- nuclear power would make electricity too cheap to meter
- we should all have flying cars by now, be living on the moon, etc.
- SMS (text messages) services are there for fault diagnosis on the mobile networks - nobody ever thought customers would want to use them
- Microsoft thought everyone would use MSN rather than browse the internet
there's probably loads more, but the lesson I draw from it is that whatever we predict will happen probably won't - it'll be something we don't expect. The only thing I think we can be absolutely sure of is that "business as usual" will not continue for much longer. The best thing we can do is to be mentally ready to adapt, and not try to hold on to things that are not going to last.
I'll stop rambling now
