{"id":41010,"date":"2017-11-27T07:07:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=41010"},"modified":"2017-11-27T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T23:38:15","slug":"what-will-technology-be-like-a-few-years-from-now-and-which-stocks-should-i-buy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=41010","title":{"rendered":"What will technology be like a few  years from now? And which stocks should I buy now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What will it be like 50 years from now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is not a stupid question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I came to America exactly 50 years ago &#8212; in the fall of 1967.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We had<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No cell phones<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No personal computers<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Internet<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Wi-Fi<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No GPS<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No DNA<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No digital photos (all film)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No digital music (all records)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No solar cells<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Bluetooth<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No drones<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No LED lights or LED flat TVs<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No artificial intelligence<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Google<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Amazon<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Apple<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Facebook<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Tesla<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Kindles<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No YouTube<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Netflix<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Microsoft<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No eBay<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No PayPal<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Square<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No Siri. No Alexa. No Google Assistant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Friends had polio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I would have to wait 23 years for Taylor Swift to be born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TaylorSwift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TaylorSwift.jpg\" alt=\"TaylorSwift\" width=\"278\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And 47 years for her stunning video <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shake It Off.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shakeitoff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shakeitoff.jpg\" alt=\"shakeitoff\" width=\"650\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shakeitoff.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shakeitoff-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now my new Apple Watch has GPS and is a phone and plays movies and videos, like <em>Shake it Off.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My car has artificial intelligence (AI) safety features. My next car will drive itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Because it affects our lives so quickly, technology makes the best investment returns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I suspect two technologies will have the biggest immediate impact:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Personal video allows distant people to work together. Today workers leave their Skype on all day, making it feel as though they&#8217;re working close together, though they&#8217;re not. Personal video will do to commercial office buildings what Amazon is doing to bricks and mortar retail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Artificial intelligence lets Google know what I&#8217;m shopping for and lets it keep alerting me. AI will only get better. It will let Nike know what shoes I like and make them perfectly for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over 95% of the stocks and ETFs I own today didn&#8217;t exist 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I bet that&#8217;s the case ten years from now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For now I&#8217;m searching for the next Square. And here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FAANG_performance_01-768x1095.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FAANG_performance_01-768x1095.jpg\" alt=\"FAANG_performance_01-768x1095\" width=\"500\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FAANG_performance_01-768x1095.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FAANG_performance_01-768x1095-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Your help, as readers, would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I&#8217;m not impressed with Walmart<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Its search engine is abysmal. Its product assortment even worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the weekend, I searched for many items from tennis balls to AC thermostats, from MR-16 light bulbs to AA batteries. Walmart has no buying advice, no user reviews and its prices are much higher than Amazon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yuch, or Yuck, depending on your semantic preferences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Today is CyberMonday<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The best deals are Open Box TVs at Best Buy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The most worthwhile deals are the iPhone 8 plus and the Apple Watch Series 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Design Within Reach<\/em> is having a 15% off and free shipping on Herman Miller stuff. My favorites:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/highbackchair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/highbackchair.jpg\" alt=\"highbackchair\" width=\"309\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/highbackchair.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/highbackchair-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EamesLounge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EamesLounge.jpg\" alt=\"EamesLounge\" width=\"666\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EamesLounge.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EamesLounge-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>At the seniors&#8217; home<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SeniorComplex.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SeniorComplex.png\" alt=\"SeniorComplex\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SeniorComplex.png 500w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SeniorComplex-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On her first day at the senior complex, the new manager addressed all the seniors pointing out some of her rules:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The female sleeping quarters will be out-of-bounds for all males, and the male dormitory to the females. Anybody caught breaking this rule will be fined $20 the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She continued, &#8220;Anybody caught breaking this rule the second time will be fined $60. Being caught a third time will cost you a fine of $180. Are there any questions?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At this point, an older gentleman stood up and asked: &#8220;How much for a season pass?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\" alt=\"HarryNewton\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHarry Newton,\u00a0who had a wonderful exhausting week with two grandchildren last week. Sadly, one of them, Peter, the youngest at just under two, had a rip-roaring cold which he generously gave me. 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