Welcome to One Finite Planet.
Rather than simply reporting news, this site provides the analysis from a think tank team, resulting in a far deeper dive into key topics that shape our future.
Just reporting what has already happened doesn’t allow seeing what is coming ahead of time or how news fits into the puzzle, while looking deeper can reveal interesting surprises.
More on the theme of this site, the philosophy behind content, the structure and how to find content on this site, are all available here.
Most content is in the form of updates to add more depth to an existing ‘webpaper‘, with completely new papers “first editions” being rare. This means that as opposed new posts on a news or blog site, the list of latest updates provides the new content, and pages highlight what is new, but the new is in the context of the overall picture.
Accessorised Evolution has enabled humans to reach the Anthropocene, the cusp of outgrowing the planet, and facing the disruptions of the emergence of AI, reaching peak population and climate change. All this combined means the early 21st century will be a period of profound disruption, which can also deliver great opportunities.
Rather than simply reporting news, this site takes a far deeper dive into how news fits into the puzzle This is a site examining these disruptions and what is behind them. More on the theme of this site, the philosophy behind content, the structure and how to find content on this site, are all available here.
Instead of a blog where new information results in a new post, where possible new research and new information arrives as new updates to an existing ‘webpaper‘, leading to bigger pages but with all information available in one place.
Content is grouped into topics, which are in turn grouped into subtopics with the top-level topics listed below.
Topics shaping our future
3 steps to “we aren’t ready!”
Elon Musk himself shows how his own solution won’t solve the key problem: AI and Robots could produce wealth to enable everyone to be richer, they don’t provide an easy solution to wealth distribution. How and why will those behind the AI share the wealth if we all lose our jobs?
Feeding the far right:
We live on a planet where population is currently beyond the level for ideal living, but where problematically governments use ‘boost immigration’ to create artificial economic growth for the “egg farm” while blaming ‘illegals’ for any real negative consequences for the voting public, who are like the “chickens” contributing to economic output of the egg farm.
Population & Immigration
Conflict & Deception:
We live on an overpopulated planet where governments use immigration to boost their population while blaming ‘illegals’ for the very real negative consequences for their voters.
What would it take to resolve the conflict and end the deception?
We are not the bad guys!
And yes, the climate is always changing, but that doesn’t mean what some suggest.
Influence:
There is no free lunch media, and increasingly our view of the world is being shaped by whatever generates the greatest profit.
Plus, why votes may not stop Trump.
The human difference behind why our possessions or “accessories” from clothes, homes, vehicles, phones etc., do matter and can help bring us happiness.
Population: yes we have overpopulation but this one is full of surprises, includong surprising economic implictions.
The ‘poster child’ of environment discussion breaks out into its own topic,
Beyond the climate, the popular issues of habitat destruction, extinctions, and plastic waste, there are still suprises that are overlooked, as well as predictions and analyss on covid-19/pandemics that may surprise.
remember when a photograph was proof? Is a video still evidence? What
can we still be certain of in the world of fake news and outrage media
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, is about the likely future outcomes. In the first section, the outcomes are those likely in response to challenges (or “threats” in SWAT terminology), while those in the second section are pure opportunities. section 2, “opportunities”.
Continually updated evolving book on a set of 8 topic groups, that i have found to constain surprises, and key insights into the likely future.
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This site started in 2015, for reasons outlined in ‘why’.
Topics here have evolved to now be grouped under threats and opportunities. All contain subjects I have found to surprise, give insight into our future, or both.
, and have evolved to cover subjects i have found
the future
Not advocacy of what people should do, nor outrage about what people are doing, but a collection of observations that i find either suprising, revealing about the future, or both.
Topics and Subtopics.
Tesla & Elon Musk: Packages, Robotaxis & why Musk must go.
AI + Self-Driving Car Sensors Explained: LIDAR vs Radar, Cameras & Ultrasonic.
2025: The future of cars, robotaxis & EVs. Will EVs die out, or eventually take over?
AI & Robots: The Class Revolution That Will Change Everything
AI Robots as Job Terminators?
Tesla & Elon Musk: Packages, Robotaxis & why Musk must go.
This web page holds the scripts and notes on videos posted on the onefiniteplanet YouTube channel, and mostly provides an alternate way to view the same content.
AI + Self-Driving Car Sensors Explained: LIDAR vs Radar, Cameras & Ultrasonic.
From the youtube description: Self-driving cars rely on more than just hype — they need sensors that can actually “see” the road. In this video, we break down the four key sensor types: LIDAR, radar, cameras, and sonar. You’ll learn the pros and cons of each technology, the myths surrounding LIDAR, and how these sensors shape the future of AI, robotics, and autonomous vehicles.
Whether you’re curious about Tesla’s approach, Waymo’s choices, or the broader race toward full autonomy, this guide gives you the foundation to understand what’s really going on behind the buzzwords.
2025: The future of cars, robotaxis & EVs. Will EVs die out, or eventually take over?
This page (and the video) look at key questions on the future of cars & EVs:
- Will robotaxis mean really no one will want to own a car anymore?
- Even if people do still want cars, will EVs just die out or eventually take over?
- What about hydrogen, e-fuels, or the countries like the USA dropping any climate agenda?
- EV have improved a lot, but need to do more before they are fully suitable for _most_ people.
- If EVs & infrastructure are just not yet ready for most people, what’s the next step?
AI & Robots: The Class Revolution That Will Change Everything
This is just the introduction, and a series of pages/videos will follow on will AI & robots exterminate us, updates on technical progress and breakthroughs, and on how, whether, as technology as done in past, AI & Robots, driven increases productivity will result in more jobs becoming viable.
But this page/video prefixes those points with a look at the long term goal: where are we heading, and concludes and we are headed for a revolution with who benefits from that revolution not yet clear.
Environment & Climate: The race against natural climate change.
The climate is always changing.
The good news has been that Earth’s surface went from molten rock to now supporting the bloom of visible life we see today as the Phanerozoic Eon, but the bad news is the bloom, and current wonderful conditions are just a brief moment, as the surface will naturally return to being too hot for any life to survive. Plus, as watching a volcano shows, things have cooled little inside Earth and while Earth currently has a relatively cool thin crust, relatively no thicker than an eggshell, it is still almost entirely a very hot planet.
V2G, V2H, V2L, bi-directional EV / EV-Hybrid charging: Solar or not, it changes energy bills!
This is a look at the V2-GHL technologies, how they work, and how they are going to impact EVs & future energy and energy prices for not just EV, EV-PHEV EV-Hybrid owners, but for everyone. Its 3 years since the March 2022 “The electrical grid, V2G and EV Home Charging” web page was published on OneFinitePlanet.org website, and now in 2025 its all happening.
Welcome to One Finite World. As opposed to blog posts that convey a persons thoughts at one point in time, most pages here continue to evolve to be improved and updated over time, and are explorations of ideas being examined to discover answers, by career analyst of future trends with a background in science.me to One Finite World. These pages are explorations of a variety of topics from a futurist perspective, and unlike blog posts, have their content updated and improved over time.
The pages are not “this is what I think”, but more “here is the information I have, so what is the answer, and am I missing things?”.
What is here that might be of interest? And how to find it? The summaries, surprises and myths are of potential interest to everyone, while other content is more specialised. The search box and categories to right may help, but the contents below intended to best facilitatinallow finding anything and is organised from general interest through to the more specific as the intended best path to navigate to find content of interest, with the most common theme be .
Population. My journey to understanding population and overpopulation.
- Normal Population growth mirrors what happens with cells within our bodies, there is growth to maturity, growth for repair, but otherwise, there is stability.
- Our recent population explosion was not normal, and resulting in an unsustainable population without major concessions to how we live.
- We are at peak child and approaching Peak Humanity:
- We have only one finite planet, and it is already full of life. Further growth of the human population, requires a reduction in the population of other life.
- Further population growth will erode quality of life for all but a small elite group.
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- We have only one finite world, which can only host a finite amount of life. One of the biggest questions is how much of the life we share the planet with should be other humans, and how much do we leave for other living things?
- Is increasing the percentage of life that is us humans essential for economic growth, or from a certain point, does it means a smaller share each of an increasingly damaged planet?
- Does the qualify of life suffer for all without the wealth to increase their share?
- A summary of the findings from exploration of the population explosion, the impact of future population, and how this elephant in the room taboo topic is not only, as discussed by David Attenborough, critical to the natural world.
- The economic future as the battle intensifies between those running the humanity equivalent to a chicken farm, and the masses or ‘caged hens’ producing the golden eggs.
- Key highlights and surprises from deeper explorations of contemporary topics such as:
Will Electric Cars Change the Balance of Economic and Military Power In the World?
Covid-19, and how long will vaccinations against Covid-19 be required?- Social media uses the power of AI to increase polarisation, dissatisfaction and outrage. Why?
The Earth has only recently supported life on land, and that support will not continue for much longer..- Why do CO2 levels create a climate crisis now, when it was not a problem back when there were dinosaurs?
UFOs, are real! Now even Obama, Republicans and the current US government are spilling the beans.
- In depth explorations of a range of contemporary topics for those interested in the topics:
- Population, Overpopulation, and the 300 year population explosion.
- Polarisation and Conflict, and Left vs Right: The ideology of conflict and we all get along in a world where polarisation has now been monetized.
- Wealth Creation and Distribution: Earths almost 8 billion needs food, clothing, housing and more.
- Electric Cars and the changes to society once stop being too expensive for mainstream buyers.
- ‘Posts’ that reflect a chronology of events:
Trump and the 2020 US election.- Covid-19, from first being alarmed back in Jan 2020 through an observation of the pandemic from Australia.
- Science and Technology Explorations.
- Science, from science background and relativity made simple through to theories as the cutting edge.
- Technology, ‘Free Technology‘ and Robotics.
- Electric Vehicles.
- Product Reviews: Of potential interest to those looking for information on a product I have reviewed.
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.”
Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)