Daily Inspiration: "Certain trends are inevitable.  Your inability to accept them should not be." - Futurist Jim Carroll

The automotive industry strike and the role that electric vehicles are playing within is puzzling, but not surprising.

This much is true - as I often characterize on stage, the industry is in the midst of a massive transformation as cars become 'big batteries with wheels.' And workers are scrambling to ensure they have a role, which is certainly fair.

What is interesting, though, is how politicized the issue has quickly become, with some suggesting that all that has to happen is to scrap the move to EVs altogether - as if that were an actual possibility. (It's not. Horse buggy makers would like to have a word.) With that, it's no surprise the auto companies push back on this mindset.

The idea of 'stopping' the move to electric vehicles might play well for politics, but as with all things, politics is not reality.

When it comes to the future and trends, certain things are certain. Oil and carbon are over as we transition energy to a world of batteries, renewables, electric vehicles, and smart grids. Insurance is moving from looking back for risk analysis to underwriting risk in real time. A huge portion of the skilled workforce will never return to the office. Construction is moving to a world in which more of the assembly is done off-site. Healthcare is moving to a model in which we no longer just fix people after they are sick, but one that through preventative genomic and diagnostic medicine, we have a good sense of what they might become sick with - and act in advance.

And most automobiles in the future will be ... big batteries on wheels, with computers inside. It's inevitable. Certain things are certain.

https://jimcarroll.com/2023/09/daily-inspiration-the-future-and-change-certain-trends-are-inevitable-your-inability-to-accept-them-should-not-be/

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