5 Game-Changing Forecasts and Technologies for 2015-2020
I’m Tim Lutts, and it’s not just my job as the chief investment advisor and futurist for Cabot Wealth Advisory to look 10 to 15 years into the future and show you how to profit; it’s my passion!
That’s why I’m always scanning both the skyline looking for world-changing trends and the horizon looking at the new technological breakthroughs that will change the way we work, play, live, and invest.
The most exciting part of work for me is identifying what we as human beings will do with these new breakthrough technologies, how they will affect our families, our work, and our daily lives and-most important-how we as consumers will spend our money, as consumer spending ultimately drives earnings growth.
I’m proud to say that my roster of winning forecasts has become legendary...
* FIRST to forecast the growth of online retailing, connecting the dots to 1,290% in Amazon
* FIRST to see the solar power revolution on the horizon, collecting 270% profits in First Solar in 18 months
* FIRST to see and understand the game-changing technological advantages Apple would bring to the world, banking 746% gains before most Americans even knew this company’s name
* FIRST to alert readers to the revolution in pure-electric cars, handing readers 695% gains in 30 months in Tesla Motors
* FIRST to see the huge monopoly XM-Satellite radio was building in its sectors, handing investors 396% gains in just under two years
And while there are many other forecasts I could name that have doubled our readers’ money 35 times in the past 44 years, the secret to our success comes down to one thing: the FORESIGHT to look beyond any company’s next quarterly report to see where the big money will be made over the long term.
And that’s important.
You see, if you can’t look past a company’s next quarterly report, you’ll never be able to:
1. Ride the huge overriding changes that will affect your future wealth, 2. Seize opportunities at the beginning of their greatest growth years, and 3. See in advance the industries and sectors that will ultimately become obsolete and take your money with them.
You need only look at the world-changing trends and technologies listed below to see the dangers of not continuing to look ahead, along with the missed opportunities that could have handed you game-changing profits.
For example...
* How digital audio and video streaming killed both the record store and the video rental business... * How online media has crushed the newspaper business... * How the new era in personalized medicine is making the one-size-fits-all method of medicine as obsolete as a typewriter...
and on the upside...
* How Apple’s iPhone created a billion-dollar industry of applications... * How social media has spawned a new era of wealth-connecting consumers and businesses in ways not imagined 10 years ago...or even * How hydraulic fracking has created an American energy revolution-not only reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil but transforming the U.S. into an oil exporter-unthinkable just five years ago.
That’s the whole reason I’ve sent you this special edition of the Cabot Wealth Advisory to:
1. Show you step-by-step how you can profit in the new age of hyper-change, and 2 .Introduce you to a few of the amazing profit opportunities that are headed your way over the next five years.
Just look!
* 3-D printing is about to revolutionize the manufacturing industry in ways we simply cannot imagine. That’s because the days of smelting, cutting, drilling, and assembling will be gone for good. In the next 10 years, everything from coffee cups to computer keyboards to airplane parts will be printed with a click of a mouse-just as you would print a piece of paper. Only instead of laying down layers of ink to create a paper picture, these printers lay down layers of plastic and metals and melt them into an actual object, layer by layer. Which is why Business Insiders analyst Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry calls 3-D printing “The Next Trillion Dollar Industry,” why every major manufacturer on the planet is adopting it, and why profit opportunities will be amazing.
* The ‘Internet of Things’ will produce a gold rush in sensor technologies. You need only look at how manufacturers are connecting everything from thermostats to light switches to cars to heart monitors to the Net to understand how this new connectivity will drive business productivity like never before. Why, as I write this, there are already wireless scales that send your weight to your smartphone, as well as fitness bands that track, record, and monitor your every move-all designed to keep you healthy and thriving. And it’s only going to grow bigger! According to a just published study by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Internet of Things market will be worth a whopping $7 trillion by 2020. You will see more and more of this across all industries in the next few years, connecting everything from consumer electronics to household appliances to the Internet to continuous online monitoring of everything from jet engines to oil rigs to entire factories. As you’ll see in a moment, the profit and employment opportunities are going to be huge. * Robotic technologies will explode across all industries. So far this year eight of Google’s 12 acquisitions were in robotics, clearly in an effort to monopolize a field that has huge upside potential-including DEEPMIND, a company on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence.
When you throw in Google’s self-driving car, and three states that already approve it, you can begin to see how robotics combined with Internet connectivity and artificial intelligence could transform personal mobility for years to come-providing both consumers and transportation companies with safer and faster transportation. While Google is at the forefront, there are a number of other ways to play the robotics revolutions I’ll share with you in a moment. * Personalized medicine will make us healthier and let us live longer. Just as the Internet transformed how the world conducts business, the iPhone transformed how the world communicates, and the airplane transformed how we travel, so, too, personalized medicine will transform our lives. Thanks to the 13-year $3 billion human genome project that started in 1990, scientists are now on the verge of being able to personalize medicines to each patient’s unique genome. The result will allow doctors to not only predict diseases but also prevent and treat them with the most effective drugs and the fewest side effects-the result will lead to both longer and healthier lives and also lowered health care costs. As I write this, 80% of the 50 drugs the FDA has designated as breakthrough treatments are a direct result of targeted therapies based on personalized treatments-all thanks to the DNA sequencing brought about by the genome project.
Which is why PricewaterhouseCoopers expects the personalized medicine market to grow by 11% annually, to over $290 billion by next year. Our top companies in the market are expected to grab the lion’s share of profits. * Space technologies could make you Wall Street’s next millionaire. According to Microsoft co-founder and billionaire entrepreneur Paul Allen, “We are at the dawn of radical change in the space launch industry.” You need only look at the billions he and Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos are piling into space technologies since the U.S. government retired the Space Shuttle to know that what he is saying it true. And it’s because the space industry is right where the computer industry was 33 years ago when the Space Shuttle was first launched, poised for the rapid growth that only 2014 technologies can bring to the next generation of launch vehicles. That’s why they are pulling out all the stops to build lower-cost and more advanced launch vehicles that can not only explore the galaxy but also send tourists into space for a profit-packed $100,000 per ride.
Which is why experts see the $313 billion space industry growing by another 250% in the next five years and why these billionaires are battling it out for billions of dollars in government and commercial contracts, because they know the barriers to entry will keep competitors out of this sector for decades. The companies that are supplying the hardware and software to these competing companies could be the biggest profit takers of all.
These are just five of dozens of amazing new breakthroughs that are headed your way over the next five years.
Yours in pursuit of wisdom and wealth,
Tim Lutts, Chief Investment Officer
Cabot Wealth Advisory
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