Find out how technology changed this sales professional’s life

According to Jonathan, there’s nothing to be feared as changes come upon us at a seemingly overwhelming speed. In fact, several industries will thrive the more people embrace technology.

The strategy and technology experts shares how he has personally been witness to the amazing benefits of technology:

Who would you say is your biggest inspiration?

Jonathan Miranda: I work for Peter Schwartz, and Peter Schwartz has been in the industry for a long time. He's the oldest guy at Salesforce, he's 71 years old, and he's got a background—he helped write the movies Minority Report, War Games. He's literally a rocket scientist that got us to the moon like he has just an amazing background of thinking about the future. Just the most interesting man I've ever met in my life.

What could property investors learn from Peter Schwartz?

When we talk about the future, he talks about all of the benefits that a lot of people don't see. When he was one of the first users of the internet where it was literally just two computers from one college to another college.

You couldn't have said, "Oh, you know, what's one of the jobs of the future of the internet? Well, there's going to be someone that manages a Twitter account for the social media division for a marketing company." Nobody would have thought of that. Nobody would have thought of that whole industry coming about with internet capabilities.

So, when we look at artificial intelligence, it's a lot about how they think of something today that might go away, and not all of the things that are actually going to come about.

Your children have personally benefited from technological advancements.

It’s just mind-blowing. I have two boys that are seven and nine, and they are autistic, and they have a hard time understanding of human emotion, so they wear a pair of Google Glasses to class. This is an initiative by Stanford Medical Research Labs and it's called Autism Glass, and what they do is if they look at somebody, it will say their name and it will say the emotion they're experiencing on the pair of glasses.

Changed the game completely. It went from hundreds of hours of therapists and little flash cards of happy faces and sad faces, to the now that they can relate with their peers immediately and have that understanding of emotion, and it trains them really quickly.

That's just today. If you think about the next three to five years, think about all of the amazing changes that are going to come from technology. Autonomous vehicles that are going to allow people with disabilities to get from point A to point B. It's going to open a whole world of new jobs and possibilities. Imagine all the lives that we're going to save from artificial intelligence.

Have you also had a firsthand experience with amazing technology?

I had brain surgery two months ago and I got flown down to San Diego to have one of the most futuristic experiences of my life. I went to the most modern hospital ever made at San Diego Medical Centre. They used artificial intelligence to determine that I had a small tumour on my hearing nerve. I was in and out of the hospital in 38 hours. I had an artificial intelligent bed that helped me sleep through the night and moved me throughout the night to make sure I was comfortable, and literally after four weeks, I'm completely fine—no damages, no issues whatsoever, and that's because they were using things like artificial intelligent tools during the surgery.

Should property investors embrace the continuous rise of technology?

Oh yeah, I saw personally my life change. I've seen how my kids are changing with technology. When we look at all these different technologies coming out, it's thinking about what's new, and possible, and exciting. If you look at the history of all of the major technology changes over the last 50 years, it is always improved, every single time.

Everybody thinks about when the industrial lines starting showing up or the vehicle change-up and put all these horses out of business - all these major changes. But the economy has always gone up, the employment rates have always gone up. Technology has always created new jobs more than it has taken them away, and it's because people see new opportunities, and new businesses, and new things happen with technology than was ever possible before.

What’s your final advice for property investors?

Don't fear the future. The future is here today, and I'm seeing it firsthand, and it is a very bright and beautiful future.

Tune in to Jonathan Miranda’s episode on The Smart Property Investment Show to know more about artificial intelligence and the changes it will bring should be embraced and not feared.