Future of the Auto Industry 2040. Trends impacting the auto industry, car manufacturers, truck factories. Auto industry innovation, autonomous vehicles, flying cars, vehicle ownership, car insurance AI / Artificial Intelligence.Futurist Keynote for Belron

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Future trends impact on the auto industry. New patterns of vehicle ownership, vehicle leasing and car insurance. Impact of physics / wind tunnels and human physiology on external vehicle design and internal layout. Why small innovations in care and vehicle design can have such huge impact on driver experience. Future of autonomous self-driving vehicles and other impact of AI / Artificial Intelligence on the auto industry. Why many global trends are changing more slowly than many people imagine and what is likely to change really fast in the auto industry.

How auto manufacturers will focus on owning the customer relationship: changing the vehicle transaction from sale of a car, van or truck to going on a "life journey" together. Innovation in the auto industry, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, distribution and after sales support via dealer networks or independent agencies and breakdown services. What are the future challenges for the automotive industry?  Does the automotive industry have a future?  Predictions for the automotive industry in 2030 and 2040.

* "Life with AI - How to survive and succeed in a super-smart world" - Patrick Dixon's new book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on the auto industry and road transport.

Read more: Future of the Auto Industry 2040. Trends impacting the auto industry, car manufacturers, truck factories. Auto industry innovation, autonomous vehicles, flying cars, vehicle ownership, car insurance AI / Artificial Intelligence.Futurist Keynote for Belron

Future of Rail in 2030: trends in rail passengers, rail freight, railway innovation. High speed rail, impact on aviation. Rail logistics and supply chain management. AI impact, Zero carbon hydrogen powered railway locomotives - Rail Trends Keynote

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Keynote for Wabtec: innovation in railroad innovation; railway locomotives, carriages, signalling, rail freight. It typically takes 5 years to take railway locomotive innovations to market, with 10 years production life and track life of 50 years, so we need to take a long term view of innovation in the rail industry. Hyper-modular approach to innovation including AI / Artificial Intelligence. Rail strategies can be overtaken by events which means leadership agility. In 2080 long distance rail freight will still be 10% lower cost than truck / road freight, and it will still be cheaper to ship containers over 5000km than by road for 500km.

And it will still also be true that 60% of manufacturing revenues in many nations will be production by companies employing less than 100 people. All these factors will shape the future of rail logistics. Expect 3.5% per year growth globally in rail investment. Expect a stampede towards carbon zero freight - eg locomotive engines running on green hydrogen. Expect huge investment in integrator technologies - whether to deliver carbon zero or to meet expectations of tomorrow's customers. Does rail have a future? What is the outlook for the rail industry in 2030? Is High Speed Rail the future? What is the outlook for rail transportation?  Video thumbnail image licensed by Shutterstock.

* "Life with AI - How to survive and succeed in a super-smart world" - Patrick Dixon's new book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on rail transport.

Read more: Future of Rail in 2030: trends in rail passengers, rail freight, railway innovation. High speed rail, impact on aviation. Rail logistics and supply chain management. AI impact, Zero carbon hydrogen powered railway locomotives - Rail Trends Keynote

Future of Aviation: Carbon Zero Planes. New fuels such as hydrogen, smaller short distance battery powered vertical take-off vehicles. Why Sustainable Aviation Fuel is not the answer to global warming. 100s of innovations will transform aviation eg AI

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The Future of Aviation - keynote at ZAL Innovation Forum Hamburg

The future of innovation in aviation will be dominated by three words: EMOTION, SPEED and SCALE. EMOTION: travel has always been driven by emotion, by the deeply rooted human desire to explore, experience, engage. 85% of humanity lives in emerging markets and most have yet to experience their first flight. SPEED: I am not referring here to supersonic air travel or space travel – both of which will continue to be exotic and unusual for the next 20-30 years. Just look instead at the speed of recovery of airline ticket sales the moment that COVID restrictions relaxed, as I predicted. And this speed is of course driven by emotion. We will also see massive acceleration in speed of innovation in the race towards carbon zero. SCALE: the investment required to deliver a new world-class passenger aircraft is so vast that only 2-3 companies have the ability to do so. The same applies to massive infrastructure that will soon be needed to carry the world’s aviation fleet towards alternative fuels. Most board debates about the future of aviation are not about what is going to happen but are about timing...

* "Life with AI - How to survive and succeed in a super-smart world" - Patrick Dixon's new book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on the aviation industry and air travel.

Read more: Future of Aviation: Carbon Zero Planes. New fuels such as hydrogen, smaller short distance battery powered vertical take-off vehicles. Why Sustainable Aviation Fuel is not the answer to global warming. 100s of innovations will transform aviation eg AI

Future of the Travel Industry post COVID. Bounce-back as I predicted for Aviation. What next for tourism and business? Why the travel industry will be an engine of global economic growth. Impact of AI. Travel industry keynote speaker at Seminarium event

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Futurist Keynote by Patrick Dixon at event for Seminarium in Chile

Update in July 2022 on this April 2021 travel industry forecast.  Paris is heaving with tourists, Barcelona the same, while many flights between Europe and the US are packed to bursting. As I predicted would happen, a rapid bounce-back has taken place.

Along with manufacturing, retail and banking, the travel industry will be a fundamental engine of future globalisation, despite the huge impact of the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The reason is that human beings are genetically programmed to travel as hunter-gatherers, and have an irresistible urge to explore. (Written April 2021)

And as experience showed in 2020, whenever local, national or regional restrictions ease a little, huge numbers started booking trips almost immediately.  This was all helped by global COVID passports - showing evidence of COVID infection in the past, or vaccination or very recent negative tests. 

Just as I predicted in April 2021, we are now seeing pent-up demand, as people look to spend more than usual on holidays using saved up budgets during lockdown.

Therefore, whatever happens in the current pandemic, to the global economy, or in other world events, in general terms over the next 30 years we can expect the number of people travelling each day to grow dramatically as wealth increases, and as real costs of transport continue to fall.

Consider this: 85% of humanity lives in emerging markets, and most people in the world are still dreaming of taking their first flight one day.The greatest growth in travel will be within Asia, and in people from Asia visiting outside their own region. We will see a rapid increase in the number and size of regional airports, high-speed rail networks, and new roads.

* "Life with AI - How to survive and succeed in a super-smart world" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including chapters on the future impact of AI on the travel industry including tourism.

Read more: Future of the Travel Industry post COVID. Bounce-back as I predicted for Aviation. What next for tourism and business? Why the travel industry will be an engine of global economic growth. Impact of AI. Travel industry keynote speaker at Seminarium event