A 255-year-old auction house that has sold Picassos found a buyer for a digital collage and raised $69 million for its author. Not bad. We have helicopters, but we want to see cars fly and investments of billions are being made to make that happen next year, including the Brazilian company Embraer. This world with flying vehicles may not be very believable, being in parallel universes, where we will be wearing glasses to understand everything. OK, it may be too futuristic a vision for 2022, but a technological revolution unimaginable ten years ago is taking place. With the pandemic, for two years we had less contact with others and the use of technology to supply this, whether through video conferencing at work or between family, made technology a friend. So, whatever the machine or artificial intelligence does to improve our lives, it becomes well accepted.
MONEY went after these advances that are attracting investment, almost like a black hole. It is already accepted that technology is one of the only ways to streamline, optimize and accelerate production, having a better analysis of the consumer and the market. Communication also won, linking the ecosystem of companies like a huge Spider-Man web. And oh, the character’s new film is an ode to the metaverse announced, by surprise, by Mark Zuckerberg in 2021 — in fact, a way to expand and save his already almost “old” Facebook business, renamed Meta — and then, big businesses, even if experimental, could be born in 2022.
The Moon is destiny. Another visionary, this one more practical and one who can be described as a fearless genius, will gain more space in 2022: Elon Musk. His electric-car maker, Tesla, the world’s most prized, will launch its spiky cybertruck, a kind of heavyweight DeLorean like the one used in Back to the Future; and his rocket company, SpaceX, is going to start spending the $2.9 billion NASA gave him to get man back to the moon. But all these projects are what you see in zeros and ones. The real practical revolution will happen in the unseen, like the Internet of Things (the interconnection between physical and everyday objects and the transmission of data over the Internet) — how you turn on your home light on your cell phone. Multiclouds in business, artificial intelligence providing better analytics and big data, “smart” going beyond a TV and reaching assorted home appliances, the boost in speed that 5G will bring in the next year, cryptcurrencies as a market not controlled by institutions… and the list goes on and on. Get ready for a lot of new stuff.
DIGITAL ART AND MELLANIA TRUMP
The art world is gnawing with hatred as collectors are turning to so-called digital art, the NFT. No brush or paint needed. In 2021, Beeple’s Everyday: The First 5000 Days sold at Christie’s for $69 million, making the American the most prized living artist in the world. Other artists will catch the wave. Surprise: Former US First Lady Melania Trump, too, by placing a digital watercolor of her eyes for 1 solana, a cryptocurrency that is now worth $187. Winkelmann really is a digital artist, before the advent of NFT, and has works of beautiful designs in shocking clash with almost eschatological themes.
THE VIRTUAL LIFE
The $1 trillion metaverse vault will begin opening in 2022. 3D virtual cities, as they’re initially seen in games like Fortnite, are under construction, and even Nasdaq recommends that you buy a little land there. With Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement to turn his Facebook investments into this business, others are jumping. You’ll need glasses, and these below have an imagined design based on plans leaked out over Apple’s ten years of design. A suit for you to feel touches in this metaverse is also welcome, and it’s called a haptic suit. Probably some of your meetings in 2022 will be in such an environment. Hold.
LITTLE ROBE FRIEND
Robots are your friends. This guy next door gracefully follows you around the house, sends out reminders, plays video, organizes shopping lists, monitors elderly people, has a detachable cup holder, and at night can be turned on like a hypersensitive guard, noticing any extraneous presence. He is Astro, from Amazon, the walking evolution of your Alexa. And wait for more beings like these out there.
3D PRINTED FOOD
In place of food in pills, 2022 will see the growth of “3D printed food”. Calm down, it’s just machines with syringes capable of assembling plates in layers, as if it were really a printer drawing on paper. The additive process is not yet capable of building a hamburger like the one in the photo, but sweets with purees, mousses and chocolate, yes.
ROCKET Caught IN THE AIR
SpaceX won NASA’s $2.9 billion contract to take the man to the moon again. The trip still has time to go, but meanwhile a sci-fi image will be able to be seen in 2022: beyond its flagship rocket , the Falcon, come back alone and land on a platform, now the astronaut pod returns and is “pinched” by two arms, then carefully carried onto the rocket.
FLYING CARS, AS SOON AS ANAC LEAVES
It looks like a huge drone, carrying passengers. And it is, apart from future Anac rules. Projects for flying cars, or VTol, vertical take-off and landing vehicles, are underway. Embraer and its subsidiary Eve are adding orders for 600 units of its device, which is still being tested. They will be 100% electric and ecologically efficient, and will have strong competitors around the world such as Airbus, Airspace Experience Technologies and Ehang.
MICROWAVES IN WAR
The US military industry spent in 2021 US$ 705 billion. Part went to new technologies, such as the high-power microwave emitter, named Leonidas, capable of “switching off” war drones in mid-flight like dead flies with a pulse. It was a partnership with startup Epirus, which won a $70 million investment in 2020. The superpowers are secretly testing sonic weapons and even reversing engineering from supposed rescued UFOs. They say.
THE BEGINNING OF 5G
The 5G will be a big leap. More definition and more bandwidth for videos, which will allow streaming 8K movies without making any device sweat. With this, the Internet of Things will gain more space in your daily life, with applications interconnected at the same time. The devices will be lighter, more economical. How much faster will 4G be? Expected 20 times more. In 2022, the installation of antennas will gain scale.
INCREASINGLY ONLINE COURSES
The pandemic has closed classrooms and forced students to go virtual. Experts believe that the fad has caught on and one of the great deals of 2022 will be open online courses, whether free or with moderate prices. A brief look at what’s out there — and almost nobody knows — and we see platforms like edX, founded by Harvard and MIT, with courses in computing, cryptocurrencies, how to lead high-performance teams, or Coursera with instructors from Columbia, Stanford, Yale at Deep Learning, for example, some being certified. Or more popular and poppy courses like MasterClass, with famous professors like Nobel Prize in Economics Paul Krugman and Director James Cameron (below).
ELECTRIC TRUCKS, THE NEW WAVE
You wouldn’t have to, but Tesla’s electric Cybertruck is covered in impenetrable glass and 30x Ultra-Hard stainless steel. Visually, it looks too futuristic. Trucks and SUVs will be the new gimmicks in this sector, with models from the new Rivian automaker and even from veterans such as Ford. The Tesla model will cost US$ 40,000 and production and delivery will start in 2022, a year in which it is projected to have 22 million electric cars running on the streets in the world.
THE TECHNOLOGY YOU DON’T SEE
Not everything is so tangible in the world of technology. And 2022 will have a lot of innovation out of sight happening in the digital world. Large companies have already realized that, end-to-end, their sales can and will increase if their infrastructure is in multiclouds. And not only that: big data and analytics more immersive and encapsulated will allow for finer, more real-time actions — and your ecosystem will thank you. THE artificial intelligence it will continue to depend on high-quality data, within ethical and responsive standards, to really evolve — and it will be human beings, not machines, who will provide this direction. New AI templates will create more individualized shopping experiences. The machine will be learning and will even copy us, visually, to perfection — see the call Deepfake, open technology that has digitally created actors like Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, to the point where only experts can see the difference. And this technology will help us transport to the metaverse, or the beginning of it, in 2022. In aspect doctor, simple telemedicine will already create a stride for chronic patients, and the analysis of large volumes of data in the sector will be essential for the creation of more assertive treatments. At cryptocurrencies, despite their vocation to stay out of the chains of the traditional market, will expand their reach in the investment cake — the Brazilian stock exchange will even offer infrastructure for trading tokens
in 2022.
WIND AND SOLAR ON HIGH
The year 2022 will be revolutionary for wind and solar energy. The International Energy Agency estimates that solar use worldwide will increase 22%, leveraged by countries like the US, which will double the amount of gigawatts they produce. Brazil is among the 20 leading countries in solar energy in the world. The number of wind farms, on the other hand, broke the record in 2021 in the country, and it is expected to increase its production by 5.5 gigawatts for 2022.
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