Hopefully my grandmother's funeral arrangements.
I'm editing the obituary for my grandmother right now, which is due to the funeral home in 2½ hours.
Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
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Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#32Lilium - 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.
What do you mean by fake? I'll admit everytime i checked out magic leap it seemed very unspecific and vague, without any actual demos. Are you saying the company doesnt even exist or just that it has unrealistic goals?
And if their goal isn't even to release a product what is it?
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#33Some current things are either going to be huge, normal, mainstream and just work in a boring way in 20 years time, or they are current fads which will pass.
Cryptocurrencies. 3d printers.
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#34Look 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.
It may be millions of units by now- it was 1M about 2 years ago (https://www.genomeweb.com/microarrays-multiplexing/1m-custom...).
Minor nitpicking: the 23andMe kits use microarrays for genotyping, not DNA sequencing. It's an older and more limited technology but it is much cheaper than sequencing.
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#35Mine: to motivate people to choose to lower their pollution and greenhouse gas emissions (significantly, not just raising awareness or things like using electric cars instead of driving significantly less).
People can do it but they prefer living the way they do, which is what is causing the problems, knowing in principle that they should change their behavior but not actually doing so.
Miami flooding more and more is not enough of a burning platform yet. Nature will provide it if we don't choose to change ourselves.
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#36Back 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 finan…
If you have a patent then sue Disney for Rogue One.
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#37Lilium - 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.
Lilium test flight: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15369850/lilium-jet-flyin...
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#38Netscape Enterprise Server and Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18350910/netscape-enterp...
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lilium and Magic Leap are fake, idk about the others.
What do you mean by fake? I'll admit everytime i checked out magic leap it seemed very unspecific and vague, without any actual demos. Are you saying the company doesnt even exist or just that it has unrealistic goals? And if their goal isn't even to release a product what is it?
Sucking investor money.
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#40Look 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…
Many of the web startups in the late 1990s had good ideas but were about 20 years too early.
A lot of things that have succeeded today were tried then and failed either because the technology couldn't scale, or the bandwidth wasn't there, or because people just weren't ready for it.