BrainCandy 65: In the next 10 years, our economy, our lives will change more rapidly than in the last 100 years. Are you already prepared

We always overestimate the changes that are supposed to happen over the next two years, But we underestimate the change that happens over the next ten years." Bill Gates. I was fascinated by Frank Thelen's new book. I'm a self-confessed technophile and find tech developments really exciting, and Thelen is a competent insider, startup investor and known to many from his time as an investor on Höhle der Löwen (Dragons' Den/Shark Tank). Entertaining and highly knowledgeable, Thelen describes the major technological developments and why their effectiveness must develop exponentially over the next 10 years. Of course, he will be at least somewhat wrong with most of his forecasts; that is due to the complexity of the matter, whose development cannot be predicted. But it's worth understanding the main forces - and also what that may well mean for us privately, for our jobs, and for our investment strategies. In this BrainCandy, I will discuss Thelen's central theses and hope that I can motivate you to read the book.