WHAT IS UNSEEN WEALTH?
The United Kingdom industrial revolution started in the mid-18th century onto the 19th century. Their contribution was standardization of production, innovation and efficiency in mass production. They lowered the cost of mass production and invented many innovative products. Unseen wealth, which is not tangible until you discover and develop them into something with values.
Unseen wealth is the creative ideas or products that is formulated in your thinking. Unseen wealth is also the intangibles, goodwill and innovative ideas of a company or yourself. These kinds of wealth will give you a new direction in life and tangible power in your hands.
The followings are examples of innovative ideas, disruptive technology and products that are produced and become the future unseen wealth:
1. The computer, iPad and Ebook that transform the printing industry. Now we can read books on our iPhone, iPad and computers. Newspapers, Magazines and Books need not to be printed on papers.
2. Alibaba, eBay, Amazon.com that change our shopping habits. We can sit in the comfort of our home and do our shopping online. The travel to the mall and supermarket is just a pastime for fun and relaxation.
3. In the future, 3D printing changes our production process, our housing construction and the medical industry. Now human organs can be printed for transplant or other purposes.
4. VR-VirtualReality changes our game playing and movie viewing habits. Future meetings, political and business conferences are going to be held in VR format.
5. Apple Pay, WeChat Pay, Alipay and Cryto Currencies change our banking and money transfer habits.
6. WhatsApp, FaceTime, WeChat change our communication and telephoning habits.
7. Autonomous Vehicles and Tesler Electrical Automobiles transform our usage of gasoline, our driving habit, the public transportation and shipping industry.
8. Space X’s rocket program changes our space technology. In the near future, people can be transported to space and space stations by riding on a space rockets like riding an elevator back and forth.
9. Advanced Robotic & AI replaces our mass labor and changes our lifestyle and working habits.
10. The new shale oil recovery method by America lowers the cost of oil production and storage to less than US$ 15 from over US$ 30 per barrel. The energy power base will be shifted from the Middle East back to North America.
11. Advanced Genomics will change our future disease prevention methods and genes formation.
OTHER INTANGIBLES:
1. Your books
2. Your playwrights for movie or TV series. 3. Your innovative ideas.
4. Your creative invention
e.g. 2009 NOBEL Price winner of Physics:
Dr. Charles Gao's Invention of the FiberOptic.
5. Your networks of friends and relatives. 6. Your angel investors.
How to raise capital for your entrepreneur business? Silicon Valley does not just rely on innovation and technology, but rely on investment and venture capitals.
1. Your ideas presented to Angel Investors/Venture/ Capitalists.
2. Your ideas and products presented to your friendship network.
3. Crowdfunding.
4. TV interviews. CCTV of China.
5. Banks and loan service companies.
6. Venture Capitalists such as:
The Investors’ Circle, The China Angel Investors Club, The Skoll Foundation, The Impact Foundation, Geneva Global, Habitat For Humanity, The Clinton Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The China CCTV etc.
The ultimate purpose of this chapter is to help you develop your career vision and life vision statements. Can you imagine what your life and career will be 5 to 10 years from now? Can you write a simple paragraph describing your life 5 to 10 years later?
Please also present Your Life or Career Vision Statements below:
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