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Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?

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Post by cm2187 »

headcanon wrote: post #76
cm2187 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, exactly. She can see the picture of her grand-children. But what's the equivalent of the grand-children incentive for using bitcoin over her credit card or cash? "Because we won't give her the choice" isn't the way bitcoin is going to go mainstream.

If you can figure that out, let me know and maybe I'll loop you in on the billions generated :) Seriously though, most people could not conceive of what the internet of today would have looked like 20 years ago, so I'm thinking it's going to be something similar for crypto. Remember that some, like ethereum specifically, are applications platforms for running arbitrary code in a distributed way. Exactly what applicat…

Well, to be honest, search engines, emails, ICQ, amazon, porn, mp3s and DivX came pretty quickly! Facebook, Uber and Wikipedia come to my mind as a later thing that was difficult to predict. Today's internet is better, we can even use it from a toilet stall with a device that fits in one's pocket! But is it really that different from the late 90s? I'm not so sure.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?

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Post by kyriakos »

ams6110 wrote: post #40
AndrewDucker wrote: post #13

Look 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.

How many social media companies did it take before Facebook got it 'right'?

Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?

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Post by killercup »

est wrote: post #69
killercup wrote: post #61

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Wow that all sounds awesome! Can you link to the Github repos with the code and spec?

Generally, reading MSDN docs is a much nicer experience than reading most OSS sources, or specs, not to mention collecting workarounds from the ocean of issue tracker comments. However I do agree OSS is important and great, especially when times that you do need to debug & trace into source code. Disclaimer: I have't developed around M$ platform for 10+ years now, not sure if the situation has changed

That was actually specific to the IE 5.5 feature set and that era's Microsoft in general. Microsoft has been doing some amazing stuff in the last years, with many of them being open source and community-driven.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?

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Post by mcphage »

kyriakos wrote: post #90
mcphage wrote: post #64

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> That makes me terrified for home values [...] The house will just become something you tear down and reprint every 10 years. The idea of me moving all my shit out of my house every 10 years is terrifying enough on is own...

A mostly automated moving company will move all your stuff out while your spending time at a resort while you house 2.0 is being printed and will replace the items back in

> will replace the items back in

Via reprinting? Because if so I may be sold.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?

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Post by merrickread »

headcanon wrote: post #75

I'd say most of the ethereum-based startups, like swarm city or golem. Right now they're going a Cambrian explosion of different business models, many of which require everyday people to be using cryptocurrencies on a regular basis. Current prices are due to speculation for this eventuality, and personally I'm bullish on crypto, but this feels too much like the 90s was for the internet. Not that that's a bad thing, i…

yup, the vast majority of these unregulated ICO's are borderline fraud and stand only to hurt the ecosystem which they're trying to enrich. I expect there will be a heavy correction towards the end of 2017.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?

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Post by lokimedes »

Babooster wrote: post #39
wrcwill wrote: post #32

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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.

Like Uber?

Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?

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Post by ENGNR »

angryasian wrote: post #86
Raphmedia wrote: post #11

Anything VR / AR. It did exist but the world and the tech wasn't ready. Hell, both still aren't.

AR I can see becoming a part of everyday life. VR not so much. I think the challenges, primarily locomotion will not be solved without a big investment. VR will succeed as arcades and amusement park settings.

With a high resolution I could see full VR being pretty great for programming, considering how hard developers often try to remove distractions and go deeper into the problem, and how useful multiple monitors are

Just a pitch black room, full body tracking, voice and gesture interface, probably a few keyboards around the room (glowing within the headset) if you want to those for some tasks

Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?

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Post by Aron »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #13

Look 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…

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