Charting the Course: Guessing the Future Path of Your Industry

You can’t predict the exact future of your industry, but you can see the direction of its development.

In 1895 the 'father of science fiction', the writer Jules Verne predicted that shoppers in the future would view pictures of retail products on personal video screens and place written orders on a 'teleautograph' to be transmitted internationally via submarine cables.

He also predicted the appearance of such things as;

1. Electric submarine 

2. Helicopter

3. Holograms

4. Newscasts

5. Video conferences 

6. Solar sails

7. Space travel

How could a person who died in 1905 envision things, some of which appeared almost 100 years after his death? Can we also develop such a skill?

Yes, we can - to an extent. And we don't need to be geniuses to do so. 

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Basic needs

I have already written about 16 basic needs that all the people on the planet share (you can read more here). This theory was developed by American psychologist Steven Reiss at the beginning of the XXI century. 

Here is the list of these needs:

1. Power, the need for control of will

2. Independence, the need to be distinct and self-reliant

3. Cur…