The Disruption of Transportation

The Great Transformation (Part 2) - The Disruption of Transportation As posted to the Tony Seba YouTube Channel on 10/31/2022 (Run Time 18 min, 23 sec) Part 2 of Tony Seba’s latest presentation on what he calls "The Great Transformation", discusses the disruption of transportation by autonomous, electric, fleet vehicles: Transportation as a Service. "The Great Transformation" is a deep dive into the key technologies that are converging in the 2020s and how they will disrupt the five foundational sectors of the economy: Information, Food, Energy, Transportation and Materials.   Seba’s work focuses on the complex patterns and dynamics of change, disruption, and transformation at all scales. He is the author of Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, and co-author of Rethinking Humanity. The rest of the presentation can be seen here: The...

Rethinking Humanity

As posted to the RethinkX YouTube Channel on 11/04/2021 (Run Time 32 min, 32 sec) We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest and most consequential transformation of civilization in history.  Yet while humanity is on the brink of this existential transformation, we’re blind to the deeper processes of change. "Rethinking Humanity" takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of the rise and fall of civilizations through a powerful lens that makes sense of the past, so that we can step into the present and create our future. Throughout history, the inability to see what is going on left society looking inward and backwards.  Desperate for stability and certainty.  Incapable of making a different choice.  The unavoidable result each time were efforts to patch up an order already in...

How Technology Disruption will Affect the Automotive Industry

As posted to the Tony Seba YouTube Channel on 10/30/2019 (Run Time 31 min, 17 sec) Based on Tony Seba's #1 Amazon bestselling book "Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation" and "Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030", this presentation lays out the key technologies (batteries, electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles), business model innovations (ride-hailing, transportation-as-a-service), how the technology disruption will affect existing companies and sectors (market trauma) and how it will unfold over the next decade, as well as key implications for society, finance, industry, cities, and infrastructure. (This is Blog Post #907) Tony Seba is the author of "Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation - How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030" and "Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030". He is the creator of...