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Ask HN: Software with biggest potential for positive impact in 5 years?
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#22self driving cars could save the world from millions of deaths per year and reduce stress and wasted time from sitting in traffic in cities like LA/NYC
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#23I think that aggregating medical research studies could lead to a significant improvement of the worlds health situation. There are tens of millions of medical studies available online. But no system to look at the data in an aggregated way. I have been doing data analysis and aggregation in several fields. Every once in a while, I dabble with the concept and implementation of a tool to do it for medical studies. It…
Even more interesting would be, to automatically link patients medical history with studies, and show the doctor some suggestions: did you consider rare disease X?; there is not enough data, do test Y&Z because then we know much more
You mean like this https://blog.tjcx.me/p/40k-fantastic-startup-idea ?
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#24I know crypto will be a controversial one, but in terms of potential surely even a skeptic would acknowledge it. Decentralised Finance in particular could take a huge chunk out of retail banking, investment banking and insurance.
OP gave a handful of examples regarding what they consider “positive impact”. You don’t even need to get past the first one (energy usage) for cryptocurrencies to be on the actively negative side of the scale.
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#25I'll be a skeptic and will say: none.
There's no current tech that will have a marked positive impact in the next five years.
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#26non-profits need to write all sort of reports to stakeholders to justify their funding, etc.
Software that would make this easy, or otherwise make that problem go away or smaller on a global scale, should have huge positive impact:
- increase positive impact of all non-profits. - improved feebackloop should also make quality better (less funds to bad non-profits that write great documents).
Seems to be a problem where software can be part of the solution.
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#27I know crypto will be a controversial one, but in terms of potential surely even a skeptic would acknowledge it. Decentralised Finance in particular could take a huge chunk out of retail banking, investment banking and insurance.
Idk why this is being so downvoted but how open the crypto ecosystem is, how much access to data, how DIY it is… to me it looks like open source financials vs proprietary government issued money.
I think we have challenges with its exorbitant use of energy, but giving more access to more people regarding is a positive IMHO.
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#28Android implementing ad tracking limitations. EU tackling big tech because the US sure won't. Greater role out of automatic breaking systems. Greater role out of demand management (energy). Remote work decentralising our cities. I expect to see new cities being built.
> Android implementing ad tracking limitations.
Google will not fight against itself. GNU/Linux phones already provide this functionality.
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#29Software to quickly and easily determine the tax implications of crypto purchases and trades.
Re: Ask HN: Software with biggest potential for positive impact in 5 years?
#30Software to quickly and easily determine the tax implications of crypto purchases and trades.
How does this lead to positive impact?