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The increased urge for on-demand, autonomous and electric vehicles will transform life in the cities. It is projected that by 2030, more than 90% of passengers will travel by cars owned by tech companies like Uber and Lyft (except they won’t likely be a human driver on it) - making the service a lot cheaper than buying and maintaining an own car.
Parking spaces take up to a third of the landmass of many cities today, where traditional cars spend up to 96% of their time. Autonomous vehicles will travel more than 100,000 miles a year, reducing the number of passenger vehicles on the roads by 80%. For example, Los Angeles will have enough vacant space to fit three cities the size of San Francisco!
A cleaner and smarter flow of electric cars will also mean lower pollution numbers and more space for green parks, walkable streets and communal spaces - as electric vehicles can form a smart web of vehicles that are aware of each other and of the people around them. It is projected that traffic jams and accidents will mostly disappear.
Also, electricity is far less expensive than gasoline and has a more stable price, costing less than half as much to travel the same distance in an electric vehicle than in a conventional one. Regarding pollution, electric vehicles generate half the emissions of conventional gasoline cars, even when pollution coming from battery manufacturing is accounted for.
Whether it’s to save the environment or your pocket, it’s a reality that electric vehicles are the cars of the future that will come to stay! Are you ready for your next ride?
The more you cook, the healthier you live. Today’s world might demand so much of our daily time that we never seem to find the right amount of time to cook something by ourselves, and prefer picking something up at a restaurant or make a home delivery. But the reality is that people who frequently cook dinner at home consume fewer calories than those who cook less.
Think of some of your favorite dishes you’ve eaten at a restaurant at one point in time and try recreating it. At the very least, you’ll come out with a fun story for your next real dinner party!
As featured on Sloto Magazine Spring 2020
There are millions of millennials that are born in a world full of bright screens. They will grow up confident that smartphones, computers, the internet and AI are the standard way of things. The younger generations will have a hard time believing we had to visit libraries to read encyclopedias in order to find out answers about the world, or buy stamps and write handwritten letters to post in the mail.
Technology is advancing at an incredible pace and with such sudden change there are some reasons to be wary of the future. The very foundation of our modern world is at stake, namely: democracy.
It has only recently become apparent that the way democracy works might not be the most fair. Remember a time when women, indigenous people or slaves had no say in the democratic process? The same exclusion is happening today, but with a different kind of population: the unborn.
Changing governments every 4 to 5 years does not inspire politicians to look at the long-term. They mainly focus at the issues here and now. The last 120 years have seen great development but at a great expense. The biosphere has been decimated: forests cut down, oceans contaminated, mountains of trash scattered through the globe. Now, with the climate crisis, we are reaching the very end point of terribly short-sighted policies that focus on profit and endless economic growth in a planet with finite resources.
Who will have to pay the bills of our wrongdoing? Our children, of course! Democracy must reinvent itself so there are policies and laws in place that defend and protect the interest of future generations.
Democracy is also at risk at another front. The internet has permitted our lives to change so quickly and effortlessly, that most people take it for granted that it is an essential tool in our modern world. But it is a double-edged sword. Through social media, corporations and ill-intended governments can harvest endless information about its population. With this information they can target ads in social media that are in fact forms of propaganda.
The case of Brexit is now infamous, where, through careful targeting, pro-Brexit leaders targeted ads, videos and campaign images to millions of people in the U.K; possibly swinging the vote in their favor.
Another big issue is the power of algorithms used today to determine what content you view in social media and online websites. Which film will you watch next is determined by a computer algorithm based on its criteria of what you’ll like to watch. What person you are going to date next can be influenced by the same AI technology fueling most date apps and sites.
If we are not careful, soon this technology will be responsible for every major decision in your life: where to study, where to live, who to marry and whom to vote for.
We are at a crossroads in human history. Historian Noah Harari has stated quite clearly: we are hackable animals. Powerful corporations and governments can manipulate your life with the new technology available.
It is time to question many of the assumptions of our modern life and begin building a safer world for us and future generations!
