I would say AR for specific applications. It would have profound effects in the trades/service industry.
AR will impact everything, it is the (pandora's) unboxing of our digital world. The possibilities are quite exciting.
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#12CUE (https://cuelang.org | https://cuetorials.com) will become the common language of config & devops, enabling a whole new level of reuse, sharing, and safety. The philosophy is quite sound (https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic)
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#13Cultured meat[0] has the potential to upend the farming industry. This isn't near meat, it's actual meat and it's already here. We're simply waiting for the cost to come down from $10,000/kg or whatever crazy price it's currently at. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat
wish I remembered what podcast I was listening to... it was someone running a company developing synthetic milk and eggs explaining why meat will never scale up, the problem is the growth medium for muscle is also the perfect environment for bacteria, and we basically need to reinvent immune systems before you're going to get a cubed inch of healthy chicken to grow without contamination
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#14I believe the next big thing will be the productization of building a home anywhere, without requiring municipal infrastructure. There is still a ways to go in terms of technology to make it all happen and make it affordable. But at some point, it will really reconfigure where and how we all live.
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#16I believe the next big thing will be the productization of building a home anywhere, without requiring municipal infrastructure. There is still a ways to go in terms of technology to make it all happen and make it affordable. But at some point, it will really reconfigure where and how we all live.
Including water and sewer?
I can envision local electricity generation and wireless communication. But not every home can support a well and septic system.
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#17CUE ( https://cuelang.org | https://cuetorials.com ) will become the common language of config & devops, enabling a whole new level of reuse, sharing, and safety. The philosophy is quite sound ( https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic )
will?
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#18Conscious realism and the cosmological polytope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYdQYZ9Rj4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02813 According to Prof. Hoffman, this model of the universe is highly parsimonious in that it can model data from the Large Hadron Collider using a single parameter, while the best incumbent (Quantum Field Theory) needs millions. The implication is that everything we see and experience are not fund…
That's a lot of words in those links. What falsifiable predictions does this make?
Yes, that's exactly my question too. "Consciousness" is often ill-defined for experimental purposes and notorious for being abused through vague "deep-ities" to make unsupported assertions about "the meaning of everything."
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#19Just guessing, but: machine learning based off of algorithmic information theory / Solomonoff induction rather than neural networks, satellite internet (well-known in tech circles but perhaps not the general public), rapid advancements in computational quantum chemistry that start to replace lab-based experimentation to produce real world value. And I agree with the other commenter about a massive fight related to water allocation over the next few decades.
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#20Climate migration. What happens Europe now/since 2015 is nothing that will come in the next couple of years. And the individual countries and so as the EU is pretty much unprepared. I'd even say that will be one of the cause of downfall of the union.