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In a century humanity went from. the first heavier than air flight to living months on end in space. Several countries plan cities on Mars. Above Earth, drones & satellites knit together coherent pictures of climate, ecology, agriculture, pollution, human activity & threats to peace. Low-emission methods to launch and power flight with lighter stronger material promise more affordable map-making, Earth sciences, security & interception of intruders. Humanity may evolve from exploiters to more immune system type role in Earth’s biosphere.

Oceans are three-fourths of Earth’s surface.  Thus, they present most of the surface that aerospace and satellites monitor, fall into, and over which floating or subsurface drones operate.  Expect integration of above and below ocean technologies, including seaplane drones, LIDAR etc.

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Robots are now deployed in all industries from outer space to undersea exploration, to healthcare. It enables greater precision in manufacturing industries (‘lights out’ factories) & medical diagnostics (guiding ultrasound & minimally invasive probes). 3D printing scaled up to whole buildings delivers very complex architectural designs at great economies of scale. Robots of every form known to nature & imagination now exist to conquer every type of terrain including drone subs for undersea. Combining sensors with an ability to respond on the spot results in human-like capacity to harvest, landscape, reforest, patrol and guard any type of terrain.

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Health emerges from nutritional, environmental, mental & exercise habits, and no health care system can compensate for a lack of these. Aging populations require new prosthetic & robotic assistance, transplants & wearable sensors. When acute diseases strike, we need diverse sources of supplies such as disinfectants, masks, vaccines. No infectious crisis can be contained for long, so to provide medical supplies faster to hardest hit areas protects everyone. Our exercise for this is more rapid response to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods or wind storms, wherever they occur on Earth.  
Meeting human nutrition needs remains the most basic foundation of health, but the way we meet those needs evolves rapidly:  vertical farms, synthetic foods, ocean vegetables, molecular nutrients, and replacing animal feed with insect proteins, may all be more common soon.  Expect changes in meal timing, recipes, exercise, and recreation.

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 As transport & heat electrify, and dirt cheap renewables proliferate, we expect challenges in matching power use to supply, including deferring loads like washers or charging electric vehicles. When optimally charged not just for travel but to back up home and/or grid, they make a community more resilient against outages. Large scale offshore wind & building integrated solar now dominate new power generation. Fleets of autonomous trucks will soon prowl highways. Resilient homes will sit out disasters for weeks in comfort. Safer, cleaner, quieter. 
Civil engineering of other kinds especially municipal and road works like sewer, bridges, roads, tunnels, LRT rails, constantly improves with new methods and materials, including new polymers, surfacing, and specialized bridge and tunnel equipment that can do what used to be weeks of work in mere days.  The technology deployed in China for bridge building, Netherlands for overpasses and Norway for undersea tunnels is spreading worldwide.  Expertise with these techniques tends to be lacking in lagging countries.

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As major manufacturers like Apple commit to more recycled content, materials science evolves new fantastic options. Some made from former waste materials that were landfill sites or polluting land and water areas; Even difficult waste like wind turbine blades & lithium ion batteries are now recycled reliably into useful products. Tailings ponds are mined for rare Earth ores. Heavy oil becomes a membrane, lubricant & plastic feedstock rather than being burnt. Sci-fi structures like space elevators and giant solid-state ‘monolith’ computers are on the drawing boards today, with only manufacturing costs in the way. We know what the future is made of, chemically. We need only make it cheaper.

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Shifts in global finance away from London and Switzerland towards Asian and other financial centres are inevitable.  Corporate arrangements to deal with sanction risk, de-dollarization, central bank digital currency (CBDC), crypto-currencies, smart contracts and new privacy and laundering rules are evolving and tracking regulations is difficult.
Investors face unprecedented risk & uncertainty investing in any area exposed to new technology, unstable climate, geopolitical tension or labour/popular unrest. Which is to say, investing in anything at all! We recommend a disciplined scenario-based approach to anticipate future averted regrets and a rational risk threshold to respect an investor’s true constraints and commitments. And, where this is impractical, a full disclosure of the uncertainty a project faces and how it could recover if the worst occurs. If a property is at risk due to changes in law or an ideology rising, appropriate means of civil and criminal enforcement may have to be planned far in advance.

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