The Benefit of Being an Early Adopter

[gabeb1920]

Hi All,

I'm just starting on my Fastlane journey even though I have been learning about it for the last few years. I'm currently pursuing web design freelancing as per the quite popular @Fox thread and it's starting to provide a little additional income plus I'm learning a lot about sales, good design, marketing and general business skills.

However I am aware the freelancer model isn't really Fastlane and I'd eventually like to transition into something more separated from my time so it is more easily salable. I work in IT and love technology so for me I'm thinking this will be some sort of a SaaS or web tool idea.

Just recently I've listened to a few podcasts which have pointed out the benefit of being one of the early movers in an industry. Even @MJ DeMarco benefited from being an early mover with the internet and his limo site.

With this in mind I am thinking of areas/technologies which are likely to explode in the coming years. Several come to mind such as:

• Self driving cars
• Drones
• AI and machine learning
• Crypto-currency
• 3D printing

My question is, is it worth learning about one or more of these technologies so I can maybe be one of those who rides the wave as the technology grows in popularity and usage? Or is it simply impossible to predict which technology will be the "next big thing"?

As an aside what other technologies do people think will be the next big thing? Just curious on everyone's thoughts.

Cheers

Gabriel

 

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[Fox]

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[Greg R]

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