Blockchain & AI don't count, because they're being talked about plenty!
Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
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#2Cultured 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.
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
#3Mass control over access to drinking water.
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
#4Clean Energy, Water Desalination, Nigeria's crackdown on anonymous SIM cards, Monkeypox, Separation of Church & State in a post-Roe world, Computer chips made out of light, The managed decline of Britain, Crackdowns on E2E encrypted messaging apps, Quantum-resistant cryptography, Tesla cars charged by burning coal.
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#5Conscious 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 fundamental, including space and time itself. The fundamental unit of reality is consciousness.
This has far reaching implications into every other scientific and non-scientific human endeavor, from neuroscience to philosophy. It's no exaggeration to say that if he's right (and he claims the math shows that he is) it may be the most important discovery in human history.
Even Albert Einstein appears to have intuited this when he wrote:
"Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live."
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#6Conscious 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?
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
#7Mass control over access to drinking water.
Frightening indeed. Care to share any more insights?
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
#8I would say AR for specific applications. It would have profound effects in the trades/service industry.
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
#9Mass control over access to drinking water.
Frightening indeed. Care to share any more insights?
it is a localized problem to places where there are too many people and agriculture for the available water budget, especially as you look out and fear climate change.
I'm not as worried, believing in the spirit of human ingenuity. Desalination and piping it from the oceans (like we do for oil) will be fine. We just need the wherewithal to implement real solutions and invest in the sciences rather than regulate behavior.
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
#10Clean Energy, Water Desalination, Nigeria's crackdown on anonymous SIM cards, Monkeypox, Separation of Church & State in a post-Roe world, Computer chips made out of light, The managed decline of Britain, Crackdowns on E2E encrypted messaging apps, Quantum-resistant cryptography, Tesla cars charged by burning coal.
No disrespect to anything on this list, but I would wager most of this stuff won't matter to the average person. I can't see how my life will change with respect to anything of these. I just don't think we can speak to these as the next big thing. For example: iPhone was clearly a big thing.