this is been by someone business or you can't afford to miss. i make your beloved. reggie barton wasn't coming up. we'll take a look at the supply chain that have dominated the headlines and business talk over the past few months and whether the straight on the auto industry will continue into 2022 plus 2021 has seen the logs of the private space industry. but what could the company growing sector hold for this next year? we'll break it out and with size make changes and the social media landscape, we bring you analysis of what we can expect with crucial changes on the horizon for the tax 0 today. so let's get started. really the program with the look at the auto sector. now, the industry has been one of the hardest hit amid supply chain disruption. and the global chip shortage factors created slowdowns and production which eventually lowered inventories and pushed prices. the chip shortage has even caused some major brands to contemplate cutting features like heated and power thief touch screens and even the intricate navigation systems we have grown accustomed to on new vehicles with new cars in short supply demand for used vehicles served with consumers being forced to pay a premium to get into a vehicle. so let's go ahead and take a look at what the road ahead has in store for this industry with brian moody. he's an automotive editor with auto trader, brian, a pleasure to have you on the show. i want to start with the state of the supply chain issues because we've heard so much about that. pushing prices up, creating low inventories. we've heard varying prediction as to when the chip shortage is, may come to an end. do you see these issues persisting well into 20? 22? yes, and i think it might be 2023 until that's completely not an issue anymore. but what will happen is over time, over the pricing pressure will gradually ease. and i think it will ease on certain types of vehicles 1st and then make, make his way to other more popular types of vehicles. now when it comes to this chip shorter that we've seen, we have also talked a lot about automakers wanting to kind of shore up chip manufacturing themselves, either by direct deals or bring it in house that may be more of a long term plan. but in the end, will that somewhat future proof the industry and do see it catching on? yeah, it could, it has a great potential for success. but remember, it's not just the chip. remember we have to talk about what goes into those. and as we move from gasoline powered cars to electric cars, we have to consider things like rare earth minerals. how are these things mind? where will they come from? so it's going to be a combination of in house deals, but also there's a policy component to it as well. and i want to get to the stuff in a few minutes here, but i want, i want to start with one more point before i get to that. because on the consumer side we've seen prices. auto trader obviously knows all about the price of vehicles . do you see those prices coming down in the next 12 months or, you know, we often talk about inflation as a whole in this country. and the fact is the price is kind of go up, but never really level off again. right, so i think what's gonna happen is you'll start to see prices ease a little bit. so right now we're seeing on certain types of vehicles people are paying between 2 and maybe 10 or 11 percent over m s r p. that's pretty expensive. that means people are willing to pay full sticker price or more to get the car they want. i think what will eventually happen over time. you said 6 to 12 month, that's about right. is that will kind of come down to more pay in full sticker price, but when it comes to lesser popular types of vehicles, that's where the easing of prices may 1st begin, as well as some older used cars. now i know you mentioned electric vehicles there and they're kind of having their moment over the last few years and 2021 names like ruby on and loosen are getting a lot of play even though they are still in their early stages. are we going to see these 2 companies and other similar start up so to speak really make inroads against the big guys moving forward? how do you see that playing out? yes, i think the reason for that is because the 2 companies that you mentioned they're delivering cars either now or very soon. that's a big difference from some other companies that we hear well some day and pretty soon. and we're gonna, this isn't gonna, this is, these are gonna deliver cars very, very soon. i do think that they will be competitors for the traditional legacy automakers. you know, some of them in detroit. but i also think the big 3 typically american automakers. they have a large role to play because they have the manufacturing, the r and d, and the distribution network to be very, very strong competitor for member distributing those products as just as important as building them and, and grabbing headlines. now when it comes to really making electric vehicles happen, making them more popular, do you see the demand for that? i know that, you know, governments around the world want to go electric, but especially here in the u. s. do you see the american people actually grasping on and looking more towards electric vehicles as their motive? transportation? i hope so. and i think that what's important to us in america is it's, it's important to the market decide those things right now. many electric cars are very expensive and so you have the very wealthy people who are buying them and their early adopters. great. that's that. that's how that has to work. i think if the average american family worked drive and all lectric su be and it cost about $45000.00, let's say i think they would like it. i think they would really be impressed with the way that they drive. but we're not quite there yet. so the adoption rates will pick up, but that's going to happen gradually over time. by this time next year, they'll probably be at least 10 all new battery only electric cars for sale versus what's available today. and do you see that infrastructure actually growing out? because one of the big things obviously is charging and you know, we're here on the east coast in washington d. c. when you go out to l, a, u, c, m, everywhere you see like a task list, super charges and the other charging stations pretty much everywhere. you're starting to see that grow kind of in a suburban d. c. but you know, really in the city, but are we seeing that, you know, maybe even in middle america growing the same way and obviously outside of this country, it has to and that has to be driven by demand. and that can be partly policy, that can be partly politics, but that can also be you know, just where the cars are sold. so if you look at places like portland places like los angeles. yeah, there are plenty, but we need many, many more of those charging stations. what we found, an auto trader was that about 80 percent of electric vehicle owners that they charge up at home. so that tells you who is buying those cars. that's not city dwellers. those aren't largely apartment people who are doing that. those are people who own their own home or who own a condominium, where they can afford to put a charger. now when it comes to i know we've talked about electric vehicles, we also have to talk about this whole self driving movement. push mostly by the likes of tesla, but if they don't actually perfect autonomy is driving, are they any better than some of the legacy automakers? pushing a visa and do they eventually lose market share as more and more movies come out and maybe some of them say that they're also going to find a way to be somewhat self driving. so here is what is going to happen with cell driving 1st, you're going to see it with regard to things like taxis and robotic tax these shuttle services. so picture the rental car shuttle at the airport that could easily be automated. the idea of your personal car having a button that you switch to make it so driving that's farther away, so it will gradually ease into that. but here's the good thing on the road toward that we're already seeing technology from brands like nissan, volvo and others where they have driver assist feature. so it helps you steer into a corner where it helps you watch as you're changing lane. and then we'll prevent you from take making an accident or it will warn you when there's a car there. all of those pieces are part of the puzzle that will eventually lead to cars that can in some circumstances drive themselves. i, brian, i have one more question about 32nd flap in the sag before. what is the trend that's going to be big in 2022 that we haven't made mentioned here. i think there's 2 augmented reality. so when you use your phone or maybe goggles or maybe the in car dash, you can augment reality and navigation system. and the other thing would be safety systems, but intervene on your behalf of the car smart. and it does that on lower and lower priced cars that always concerns me. i kind of get scared when a car is gonna start making safety decisions for me, where i could see the benefit. but also, you know, i could see where the detriment might be. brian moody, automotive, editor of auto trader. well, happy back on. thank you so much for your time today. and as we have talked quite a bit about here on boom, buzz 2021 was a huge year for private space companies. 3 billionaires have been sucking up all of the air in the sector with their companies. taking center stage has been richard branson, virgin galactic jeff basis is blue origin and ilan mosque space x. i think you've heard those names before. now branson became the 1st 1000000000 or to take a trip to the edge of space in july and weeks later, bade those who followed in his footsteps with the light of his own. now meanwhile, in november space completed its 4th trip to the international space station and a partnership with nasa. as the musk leg company works toward advancement and seeking of the i as, as a russian film crew spent 12 days aboard the station working on a movie. these are obviously just a handful of the major milestones that have taken place in the private space industry. so to discuss what the future of the private space program looks like, we are joined by table professor of business strategy with a focus in space commercialization. and it's great to have you on the show today. i know obviously space tourism has become a big media story. recently. we even had our own william shatner take a trip with blue origin earlier this year. but how important will the tourism angle be in the industry, especially in the coming years? it provides a pretty. it's a really good mechanism to provide legitimacy for space. you know, tourism is, it provides 2 functions, right? one, a revenue stream for these firms that are relied on angel investment or venture capital or private equity in some scenarios. and also government contracts, right, which is something we'll talk a little bit more. but this tourism aspect of the b to c component where the value of that is more about who like in that individual of what they value that experience. and additionally, for people who might not be able to go to space because tourism is space stores and quite expensive, they can see themselves as those individuals who are non astra going to space. so you know, space tourism might get might quickly feel like a old hat thing, which is good because it means the technology is working really well. but it does provide a valuable function for the industry at large. and it definitely seems like we're seeing more and more of it and like you said, that brings a lot of attention to things as well. now there seem to be a lot of back and forth between on mosque in bay those over government contracts this year. is this a lot of sour grapes after basics has been working so closely with math and recent years? and do you expect that to continue? well, you know, maybe a little bit of our graves, but we can't get too harsh on that because even mosque was doing the same thing in 2007 before even had a working rocket right against legacy aerospace firms. but we are definitely going to see this large, very visible fight between these 2 individuals on these 2 firms, especially on government contracts, because government contracts provide patient are in d funding. it's, you know, you can bring on investors, but they expect some are alive because there has to be some degree of business activity, economic activity with the things you create where a nasa contract, they are the customer and they're relatively patients. it takes time and it's very complicated and you know, that does come with strings attached, but space x and blue origin. both have a vested interest, interest interest in seeing the space economy grow. and those contracts are really great ways to develop technology that they can turn around and, you know, make, create other economic activities. and we're certainly seen a lot of that progress made, especially in the last year. now when it comes to these 2 billionaires, they also kind of different vision. we've seen that business has been talking a lot about the broad future. he mentioned moving, polluting industry to space. he said we will eventually live in space colonies where we will have to visit the earth as a tourist destination while musk has talked about settlements on mars. so what do you make of these competing visions and is any of this really a near future ambition, or are these still generations away? well, so these 2 visions are fascinating because i think they actually represent these 2 individuals quite well. basis is a marginal innovator, which is to say he takes whatever technology has, whatever business service it is and then thinks about what's the next step that adds value to the things are doing. but then opened up an additional market, is definitely what he did with amazon in the dot com era. and what as create made this firm become what it is, must come either hand back to the fence. it's all the time he did that with pay pal . we could actually say that very, very easily because we weren't used to that kind of concept of online payments at the time. he's done that with test love, but now he's, you know, it's actually something very real that you just had a segment on. and he shoots hard, so, but then i want to talk about this near future for generations. you know, from a social science perspective, let's put some numbers to these generation is typically about 20 years. we could say that way. so near future would be $20.00 to $40.00 and then beyond 40 would be generations, right. space is a long run game and i think both of their visions are not within 20 years. they are on the level of beyond 20 years, possibly longer. and i think what's important to remember though, is that whatever they're doing and this is not a chris, is my either one, but that what they do is benefiting the terrestrial economy. we have in this moment somehow in a shorter term, hopefully within the next 10 years. so it's fascinating these, their, their interesting dues and obviously air it out before we go. i, until we talk so much obviously about this year. i mean, obviously there were the great stories of, you know, space that's going to, i assess, but really it was a lot, at least for the back half of the year of the space tourism flight. what's going to be the trend moving into 2022? ah 2022. you know, there's 4 things that i'll say real quick, star link. you're going to hear more and more about star link. that is a for must, that's actually a really marginal innovation for the vertical integration he has already. and star link is going to, at some point, be a real big deal. so i think you're going to see more talk about what starling is doing in their capabilities. you're going to see starship launch at some point which is space axes, heavy launch vehicle, and that's going to be a sight to see we, i mean, i might weep when i see that because it's so and that's an intense concept. but that has terrestrial implications. are potentially being bibles, earth transport system, but also for the far future of potentially settling mars, you're going to see more space investment. very recently in the past few days, you had planted labs, i p o and they're now on the public market. right. and that's a really big deal that space a space firm has a solid enough market that they can be on probably as a public loosed firm to whether the economic option down to that come with that. and then lastly, and this is more to speak to the long term british vision of space, is you're going to see firms like axiom space talking about in blue origin is on this as well, about private and commercial space stations. now those aren't going to be realized until 2024. as far as axiom space talks about it and beyond. but those things are within 5 years. and from a space perspective, to say that you're doing something in the next 5 years means that there's been a lot of development, a lot of conversations, a lot of our like contracts signed, and that's a pretty firms stake in the ground. so we got a lot coming on the horizon. certainly a lot to look forward to and we will continue to cover it in 2022, professor and fable. thank you so much for your insight. thank you. and i'm now for a quick break, but when we come back, we take a spin around the social media sphere and take a look at what regulations could be over the horizon. back in the platinum use a who's diagnosed with cancer in 2000. when the doctors told me the cancer was incurable, i knew i had to make a change. so i decided to travel to one of the most toxic places in america. florida. one of florida is biggest industries and best kept secrets is phosphate mine in the biggest layer is $85000000000.00 industry. is mosaic, said i. there are reports of millions of gallons of contaminated water now flowing into the florida aquifer name from there's a chronic. oh, well, you know, i don't want to hear that word poets mean, but that's what it is. in 2013 my, all our family dog, my brother, who was 21 years old, myself in my father were all a problem with wow. yeah. okay, the whole rock and the good playing. right? yeah, yeah. maybe they'll actually learn that more help is more important than who all those driven by trainer shaped as in there's syncs. me. we dare to ask in ah, welcome back. the world of social media is one that has been in the spotlight more and more lately as governments ask whether the most powerful tech jive have just too much power. and research tells us how all of the time we are spending scrolling and posting. so having a very real impact on her health and live now in the last year alone, we've seen unprecedented censorship online as social media giant take hold of both who can speak and what they can say. we've also seen a push to get kids online, along with the research that shows all of the reasons they should stay far away from the platform that have become a big part of many of our do live. so where does it all go from here? we're joining us now to discuss our social media, political commentator, lauren chen, and legal and media analyst, lionel. great to have you both on the show today. lauren, let's start with, you know, i know this year we have watch social media networks. sensor. everyone from the average facebook user to journalists to the sitting president of the united states . do you see more of a response from the public coming in the next year as the censorship is sure to continue? well, i think you're right in saying that the censorship will not be stopping any time soon. in fact, i think all signs point to it ramping up. we've seen already twitters new c, e o agger, while just and in the 1st few days that he was in charge, he already implemented a new, they call it safety measures in order to restrict what people can post at youtube has recently gotten rid of the dislikes on their videos, which a lot of people say is an effort to a supposed sensor, any dissent against corporate or a white house videos. and with facebook, we see that they are, i suppose med and now we see that they are actually continuing to be almost haunted by the government over the way that they are affecting the minds of teenagers specifically. and in my opinion, that simply a ruse in order to justify more government control. so censorship will not be stopping. and ironically that i think is what will be pushing people away from these big tech platforms. and for the longest time, we haven't really seen any viable alternatives that have the same amount of reach as platforms like youtube and twitter do. but hopefully that's something that will be changing in the future. no wine. oh lauren just mentioned the new see of twitter . he says he wants to focus less on free speech on the plan borman at that point. the 1st amendment is what is guaranteed to as you know, by the government and, and kind of from the government for that matter. and it is also become a rallying cry for alternative platforms looking to gain users, but is free speech a legitimate expectation on social media. these sites run by private companies. first, theoretically, the 1st member says, congress shall make no law and it's incorporated to the stage through the 14th amendment. but let me remind everyone watching years ago during the civil rights era, there were people who said, you can't tell me whom i must seat and who am mas, let in to use the restroom after that lunch counters. i'm a private industry 1st amendment. all of your due process has nothing to do with me . well, public combination laws came along and changed that immediately. and one day when these particular facilities, arg reconsidered, as you tell it he's so big right now. so large, so much a part of our everyday commerce in our conversation, the, the usual rules of newspapers and various gatherings of free speech that doesn't apply. this is a whole new world. so they're going to change this and also get rid of 230 section 230, either apply it in force it or throw out the window. so we're going to be seeing a revamping of this. you better believe it? well, it's interesting because, you know, we're more than a decade into this social media experiment. and i like the way that you mentioned, of course, regulating it as a utility which really should be what they do because it is such a communication device throughout the world, right? now, lauren, i went ahead another story because when it comes to those alternative social media platforms, we saw the parlor this year be wiped off the face of the internet for the most part in a targeted attack from apple and amazon web services. do you see other platforms being able to gain enough traction to become real competitors in the foreseeable future? or do these, you know, facebook or meadow or whatever you wanna call it? and twitter have a strangle hold on all of this? well, just really quick. i also want to mention regarding the idea, the 1st amendment applying to social media platforms. there have been rulings in the past that said the president, trump could not block people on twitter because, you know, it was part of the public discourse and open public space even though is privately owned. so i think that's definitely important to keep in mind as so many of us are being censored. social media seems a little bit a critical and like a double standard there, about regarding other platforms and their ability to go on when we've seen parlor very, very quickly taken down by its web hosting services. this is actually been somewhat a blessing in disguise, to a lot of these all tech platforms we've seen being kicked off by web posters and service us a server, sorry. so what this is actually force companies to do is to build their own. so now we have places like ads that are entirely independent run, including by payment processors and even a rumble as well. they are relying less and less on these existing big tech i infrastructure. and we see president trump's true social. they're also working with companies to have their own servers own own web hosting and own cloud services as well. so i'm thinking that in the future, as all tech becomes a bigger and bigger share of the market, we will see that these are traditional apps, stores the web posters. they will have less and less control over what these platforms are able to do because there's almost parallel economies that are developing. and certainly there's always a talk about what is the next big thing that's going to come up and be the new facebook thinner twitter, the alternative that people go to. now i know we also hear a lot of talk from members of congress thing that tech diane's like. facebook and twitter have too much power, but they never seem to really do anything to stop them from gaming, even more power. how do you see that fight? continuing to play out in the next year, we've got about a minute left. well, once everybody realizes that these, a tech giant are basically lap dogs and dim boxes and murmured ons and handmade and of a shadow government overlord, system. i mean, if you think that these are independent, kind of quirky, nerdy, silicon valley people who put together these really cool platforms. and then next, you know, oh lordy, look, we're billionaires, you've gotta be kidding. they are the government. we've got to stop this fiction that there's this place called silicon valley where they are independent. they are the government, this is a shadow government, this is a ruling class. i mean enough of this. they are merged and they just like like 2 twins, you have to remove them and basically remove the fact that they are conjoined. and if you can understand that metaphor good for you, because i lost myself in the middle of the elevators. certainly a lot of play here and it affects so many people and we will continue to follow it and the next year, lionel and orange, and thank you both for your time. thank you. thank you. that's it for the 5, you get boom, by the on demand on the portable tv app available on smartphones, tablets, or google play in the apple app store by searching portable tv, portable tv. you can also download it on samsung, smart tvs and roku devices, or simply check it out affordable that tv will see you next time in with one of the worst ever mess. shootings in america was in las vegas in 2017. the tragedy exploded a little of the real las vegas, where many se elected officials are controlled by casino owners. the vegas shooting revealed what the all vm p d really is. and now it's part of the stand machine. most of the american public barely remembers that it happens that just shows you the power of money in las vegas. the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic head, the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades. and then you have a mayor who doesn't care. so here is caroline goodman, offering the lives of the vegas residence. to be the control group to the shiny facades conceal a deep indifference to the people vice could have been saved if they were to take an action. absolutely, keep the registering and keep the slot machines being in vegas as a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives. being lawson with ah, with those to chill with this goal is to chill to begin with. which one is more about the way to assess my weight? 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