For income and wealth inequality to start trending back in the desirable direction once again.
Both of those are trending in a positive direction right now.
Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?
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#42- Batteries that last longer (in general). - 100%, 4G coverage wherever I am in the world. - Consistent and reliable internet speeds around the world.
I know this borders on sacrilege to say on HN, but I enjoy going out and camping in places where there is no coverage. Being utterly alone sometimes is nice...... I can see the stars (well, I live in Washington, so I have to travel a bit to camp where I can see the stars, but... you know). I, personally, would mourn a little if 4G reached everywhere.
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#43Low cost ($35 or less) 1Gbps internet speeds (up/down) available in the majority of the US and rest of the world.
After just updating from sub-10Mbit/s connection to 50Mbit/s, I don't really see why this would be something for which to waste a free wish. I honestly can't think what I'd do better with a gigabit connection.
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#44Discussion where people don't selectivly choose which facts to talk about. I'm seeing this a lot right now with all the hot topics, both sides will take the moral high ground and pretend that they have never said or done the same thing when the shoe was on the other foot, most notably Trump: Obama; Charlottesville:Dallas.
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#45Information: Decentralized telecommunications. Removal of centralized mobile carriers in favor of alternate mesh and private (micropayments-based?) local wireless access rental popularization. The major technical barrier at present is the user experience around default mesh support on phones (startup anyone?)
Social: Non-government reputation systems worth their salt finally enter commerce and sociopolitics to automate supply chain management, RFQ processes, SLAs, incident handling, direct political representation, etc. A revolution in education, international sociopolitical movements bypassing national political systems to address global challenges, increased respect for the environment.
Physical: Reformation of global logistics with distributed manufacturing and laws and the requirement for commercial product part designs to be published with every sale for independent consumer repairs.
Food: At least one city feeds itself largely from automated rooftop farming.
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#46Civilized discussion on hard topics -- There seems to be a large amount of shouting matches going on right now. We need to be able to discuss things in a calm and respectful manner even when we strongly disagree with the other side. There are a lot of buzz words that get thrown out that to me have lost meaning (racist, sexist, etc.). These words do have meaning and there are absolutely people doing these things that…
Would up vote this a thousand times if I could. Most of the other problems listed in other threads would be easier to solve if we could just have the tough conversations and find better ways to meet in the middle.
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#47Commoditised high-bandwidth quantum-entanglement (i.e. no latency) communication devices. This will change everything from securities trading to interplanetary communication.
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#48The price of a single bitcoin is $1M USD in the year 2027.
This is achievable if Bitcoin grows at an annualized rate of 72% for the next ten years.
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#49Minimum guaranteed income everywhere. Also cryptocurrencies (or at least one) becoming mainstream.
Minimum guaranteed income is the beginning of the end. From a humanist perspective it is great, but that is short sighted. Human beings are goal driven, strip away the necessity of that basic human drive and who knows what can happen.
"Idle hands are the devil’s workshop"
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#50Low cost ($35 or less) 1Gbps internet speeds (up/down) available in the majority of the US and rest of the world.
People don't actually need that much. It's better to have 100/100 guaranteed for example than to spend a lot of money providing very fast internet when they use it over WiFi only for example.