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Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by devrandomguy »

Yoric wrote: post #44
noiv wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ELI7: WebGL crunches numbers fast to end up as pixels, WebGPU crunches numbers fast to end up as numbers again.

Got it, thanks for the clear explanation. So this means that we'll soon have web ads mining bitcoins using our GPUs, right? :)

That was already a thing, for a while. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0

Can't tell if they are "honest" people who closed shop when they realized how bad their idea was, or if they just threw smoke and went dark.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by pmoriarty »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #19

Gene editing, particularly on living people. I'm looking forward to cancer treatments being no more involved than an antibiotics regimen. I don't know if its around the corner, but considering the human genome was completed circa 2003, I'm pretty enthusiastic that it isn't too far away.

It's a way's off, but I'm looking forward to the day genetic engineering lets people see colors they aren't able to see today. Those and other sensory enhancements could revolutionize art, culture, and society.

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Post by kmicklas »

jostylr wrote: post #39

Textblade: https://waytools.com/ Single row keyboard that has minimal finger movement. It was to be delivered March 2015 or so, but it has yet to be released. They have testers who rave about it and it looks incredible, but it is perpetually around the corner. Originally designed as an ultra-portable phone keyboard, those who have used it tend to use it for all their machines. It has jump slots to quickly switch from…

I don't know if this is the solution, but I agree improvements in human-computer-interaction is one of the big things holding back tech for a lot of problems. Obviously a non-invasive brain interface would be the holy grail.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by bmcusick »

Fully & Quickly Reusable Rockets (refuel & refly, like jets)

Obviously both SpaceX and Blue Origin are the leaders here, but once they do it the other majors will either have to build the same thing or drop out of the industry.

There are so many things about space that we just assume are true, but are actually only true because access to orbit has always been so expensive. If we can get the cost to reach orbit down to a multiple of the fuel cost, then so many more things are possible.

We finally get large satellite constellations for low-latency Internet all over Earth. We get space stations and O'Neil cylinders. Moon bases and fuel depots on Titan.

At the same time, firms like Made In Space are working on in-space construction so you can build radio telescopes in space with arbitrarily large dishes (10 km, maybe?). Eventually we build mirrors that size too.

Basically just those two things are the only barriers between us and a solar-system-wide civilization like in The Expanse.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by bmcusick »

bmcusick wrote: post #66

Fully & Quickly Reusable Rockets (refuel & refly, like jets) Obviously both SpaceX and Blue Origin are the leaders here, but once they do it the other majors will either have to build the same thing or drop out of the industry. There are so many things about space that we just assume are true, but are actually only true because access to orbit has always been so expensive. If we can get the cost to reach orbit down t…

Arguably the third thing is ISRU (In-Space Resource Utilization), aka, mining asteroids for fuel and materials. But that's not immediately necessary and doesn't count as "around the corner".

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Post by sp527 »

amirouche wrote: post #2

Without doubt, GraphQL is the next technologo I will learn. The idea is so brillant compared to REST. If you are convinced by SQL and in general by Domain Specific Languages, I think you should give GraphQL a try.

By what factor does using GraphQL accelerate development time?

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Post by JKCalhoun »

tinco wrote: post #57
gpsx wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me the benefit of AR is not just overlaying virtual objects on the physical world but specifically highlighting real objects in your field of view. Granted, this does just come down to placing a virtual object on the physical world. I can give a specific example that is perhaps of not so great financial advantage, but I think this kind of thing will be useful - using AR to give you directions to build IKEA furnitu…

I feel the key AR advantage will be that we don't have to spend half our time glancing down on tiny rectangles anymore. The Oculus is already less than an order of magnitude away from competing with regular LCD panels. Google glass and maybe that magic leap thing give us hints that it will eventually happen for mobile. No more displays, now that's something I would pay for.

I would rather no-more-displays by way of voice command.

If Siri advanced enough, I would love to leave my phone at home and bring only my Apple watch.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by noiv »

Yoric wrote: post #44
noiv wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ELI7: WebGL crunches numbers fast to end up as pixels, WebGPU crunches numbers fast to end up as numbers again.

Got it, thanks for the clear explanation. So this means that we'll soon have web ads mining bitcoins using our GPUs, right? :)

Well, that's one thing. Google "Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks" for another.
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