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Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
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#22Nuclear 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.
There have been some advances with REBCO magnets that may change that though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 has info.
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#23Lilium - 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.…
Lilium and Magic Leap are fake, idk about the others.
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#24Look 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 t…
> What would you have looked at and thought "That'll be massive in 20 years"
I was on the internet in the early/mid 90s, and was told that "the web" was growing massively and was going to be huge. This was more common knowledge by 1997.
The kind of DNA sequencing that 23andme sells to people for £150 now? It's not "millions of units" massive yet, granted.
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#25Back in 2002, I started working on "automated digital doubles of real people" with an eye on automated actor replacement. I'd been working in VFX, with a history in 3D development going back to the early 80's. Long story short: started with a stellar team and I wrote and was awarded a global patent on automated actor replacement in filmed media. The company, patent and seed funding all come together just as the financial crisis at the end of Bush's term climaxed. Team scattered, I went it alone building a freelancer tiny team. Pivot to a game character service. I was never able to achieve more than a half way decent game character creation web API, which no one would pay to use. All that is left now is 1) the twitter account https://twitter.com/3davatarstore?lang=en, and of course I still have all the tech. I use it for facial recognition now, and no longer make avatars. It's even better now, but even when contacted by interested parties, no one want to pay for it, at all.
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#26https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu I want to believe.
yes me too. Maybe too far ahead for most people. But the concept is unbelievable good.
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#27Crypto currencies probably. I could see taking a generation for them to be mainstream and understood by the public the way the internet is today.
I very much doubt that. Tech people love it as a nice invention with a libertarian twist. But what is the incentive for my grand-mother to use it over regular cash?
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#28The various object-capability projects alive right now, like Tahoe-LAFS, Monte, Cap'n Proto, Sandstorm, and Genode, are all very much future technology. Imagine:
* No accounts, no passwords, just secret keycaps
* Instead of messy and complex role-based tables, capabilities always know exactly what they are capable of doing
* No more confused deputies
* Fine-grained trust
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#29Crypto currencies probably. I could see taking a generation for them to be mainstream and understood by the public the way the internet is today.
I very much doubt that. Tech people love it as a nice invention with a libertarian twist. But what is the incentive for my grand-mother to use it over regular cash?
Imagine the same thing with your grand-mother and the web 20 years ago, she would have no reason to visit it. But now, everyone is there and she can see pictures of grand-children via the web. I could imagine similar reason for your grand-mother to use crypto-currencies in 20 years.
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#30Antropogenic Global Warming.
I am being sarcastic. But it's very hard to see, today, any technology that could make my life significantly better (at least than fixing climate change).