Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)?

Among other things, Virtual Reality... specifically 3D stereoscopic interactive imagery makes things very life-like and I am stroked by its possibilities for recreation as well as for training.

The present day headsets are still bulky, but am sure they will become lighter and even more better.

The interface will also improve. In oculus we can already use fingers to navigate and interface with the OS. This will only improve.

The commoditization of dc space in the last 10 years has been nothing short of amazing. Today you can buy 100G port switches for pennies and run stock linux on them. With kubernetes you can build entire warehouse scale supercomputers on a budget when previously only google and select few could do it.

The fall of Intel.

For my entire life (born in 1972, same timescale) Intel has managed to keep a leash on what personal computers could be. The few times it's slipped have led to exciting advances, but they got them under control again quickly.

The explosion of held up potential that will happen when they shatter should (I hope) make the AT&T breakup look small.

I am an old sysadmin. I have been thinking recently I should get rid of my server in the roofspace and migrate stuff on it to the cloud. I had to climb the ladder today and reboot it from the terminal. It was like seeing an old friend. The old girl still has life in her. She's not getting put out to pasture yet (costs £3 to £4 a month to run).

I am replying to my own post to share something that gives me some excitement. Nothing compared to the major revolutions I mentioned in my post, but definitely something that shows some potential.

AR - I was blown away by the AR comic book reader developed by VeVe for their NFT comic books. I still think that NFTs are lame (at least their current format), but being able to see through your iPhone an old comic book sitting right there on your table and flipping its pages was something magical. Never before I wanted so badly to have AR glasses with me and just being able to read a comic book collection in this way, without the need of my iPhone.

Robots - I was initially excited about the Amazon Echo, but I ended up using it only to set a timer when I cook. The new Amazon Astro is exciting. Way too expensive right now and I am just scared it might be a huge disappointment, but the idea of having a robot in my house that follows me, helps me, etc. sounds like super fun and very exciting.