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A bit ago (7 months) I asked a related question, that may have ideas for fields or technologies to be excited about working on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37473795 (Ask HN: Tech that seems to have vanished?, 189 comments) Memristors, alcohol batteries, laptop frame heatpipes, flywheel energy, smart textiles, and several others were mentioned.
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No one said it's been done. There has been healthy debate about the fact that there hasn't been any (major) new social media networks since Snap (and Instagram before it). The cloud computing paradigm is now mostly dominated by 2 players (with GCP a distant third). here are 2 major desktop OSes, 2 major mobile OSes. etc. This isn't proof that it won't happen again, it just says that the rate at which new innovations…
This is a joke right? No new major social media networks since Snap? Eh what about TikTok?
Space industry, particularly mining, raw material processing and construction.
We're 16-158 years away from the collapse of easy orbits.
Upscale those laser zappers which are now being fielded to combat drones and put them in high-flying aircraft or on mountaintops. Start zapping the debris and clean out those orbits. Larger pieces of junk can be collected by some iteration of MegaMaid™ (in essence an orbiting Roomba). Problem maybe not directly solved but at least postponed to be either solved this way in a number of years or naturally through orbital decay of circulating junk.
Whatever the kids are really passionate about.
Whatever the kids are really passionate about.
In other words, girls and boys. May they find the joys to be had when the two sexes meet - or for those few who have different tastes, the same sexes - and may the former consider the natural result of that union to be a boon for them and for society. Go forth and fork(2) , ehhhh procreate.
Is "kids hooking up with each other?"
Networking capabilities for WASM could make it the ultimate polyglot platform.
We're still barely scratching the surface of AI/LLM/ML. It's correctly getting plenty of attention because it is general purpose technology (steam engine, electricity, the Internet, etc.). Lot of interesting things happening with NeRF, Gaussian splatting, and similar. We're close to be able to do full 3D video capture of locations and high-fidelity playback/exploration in VR.
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In other words, girls and boys. May they find the joys to be had when the two sexes meet - or for those few who have different tastes, the same sexes - and may the former consider the natural result of that union to be a boon for them and for society. Go forth and fork(2) , ehhhh procreate.
To be clear here, your answer to "What fields or technologies are you excited about?" Is "kids hooking up with each other?"