Anything VR / AR. It did exist but the world and the tech wasn't ready. Hell, both still aren't.
Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
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#12IndieWebCamp: https://indieweb.org/
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#13Look back 20 years to 1997. Before Windows 2000 brought together the home and server codebases. Before the internet was available on mobile phones. Heck, back then the internet was used by less than 2% of the global population.
What was 20 years ahead of its time then? What would you have looked at and thought "That'll be massive in 20 years"?
About the only thing I can think of is VR. Which Sega tried to launch in the late 90s, and only now is selling over a million units.
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#14Lilium - The world’s first electric vertical take-off and landing jet. (https://lilium.com/)
Neuralink - Develops high bandwidth and safe brain-machine interfaces. (https://neuralink.com/)
Magic Leap - Mixed Reality (https://magicleap.com)
Crispr-Cas9 - A unique technology that enables geneticists and medical researchers to edit parts of the genome by removing, adding or altering sections of the DNA sequence. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR#Cas9)
This is a great question. The acceleration of technology has made it important for entrepenuers to look further ahead than ever when deciding where they want to make their impact in the world. Tomorrow's successful leaders in business will be the ones that peered into the most obscure places of the future to find it's problems and it's solutions.
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#15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
I want to believe.
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#16Nuclear fusion? I can see this thing in 20 years http://news.mit.edu/2015/small-modular-efficient-fusion-plan...
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#17I was doing autonomous mobile robotics in the 1987-1996 era, does that count?
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#18Crypto currencies probably. I could see taking a generation for them to be mainstream and understood by the public the way the internet is today.
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#19Nuclear fusion? I can see this thing in 20 years http://news.mit.edu/2015/small-modular-efficient-fusion-plan...
Nuclear fusion energy is always 40 years before beeing production ready, at least since the 1950s.