Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by Razengan » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

I'm at a point in life where technology doesn't concern me so much as human behavior and where we're collectively headed as a unique species in the cosmos.

Regarding convenience, comfort and entertainment, we are good enough — A person can get all sorts of luxury and services without ever leaving one's home — but technology that encourages us to treat each other better, feel better about ourselves, and removes barriers to physical and social mobility, is what really excites me anymore.

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by abledon » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

Earthing Mats & the research into our bioelectric chemistry. Where you work at a standup desk but stand on a mat that is grounded to the earth.

Also E-ink HDMI screens with fast refresh rate.

Edit: These downvotes remind me of how the greeks drowned Hipassus for talking about the existence of irrational numbers lol.

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by lallysingh » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 2:21 PM UTC

Smarter conversational AI. More applications just being plugins connected to your cloud AI instance. It's a revolution on user interfaces whose scope we're not even close to understanding.

The biggest part: it'll make people better at asking sophisticated questions and understanding how important that is.

I think it'll be as big a shift change as the Internet was.

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by mabbo » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 2:23 PM UTC

KeitIG wrote: post #19

WhompingWindows wrote: post #8

CRISPR-CAS9 for genome editing. Briefly, it allows us to identify particular bits of DNA and modify one or more bases. It's a very new biotechnology (research essentially began within the last 10 years) which applies to essentially all species we've tested it on. It is cheap and so easy to perform that I could probably teach 99% of HN to do it in a week's training or less. It's still not as accurate as we need it to…

I am not sure that human genome edition is something I would consider "exciting". It adds a lot of ethical questions, I am thinking about the kind of uses "I want my child to have blue eyes" in particular.

Roller coasters and skydiving are exciting in a similar way.

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by sanxiyn » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 2:23 PM UTC

WhompingWindows wrote: post #8

CRISPR-CAS9 for genome editing. Briefly, it allows us to identify particular bits of DNA and modify one or more bases. It's a very new biotechnology (research essentially began within the last 10 years) which applies to essentially all species we've tested it on. It is cheap and so easy to perform that I could probably teach 99% of HN to do it in a week's training or less. It's still not as accurate as we need it to…

> Do we allow a bunch of 6'5" mega-geniuses with blonde hair, blue eyes, and all the right genotypes to take over society?

We will. Quoting from https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/typos/

"What would a spelling-checked person, one with no genetic typos, be like? Since no such person has ever existed, we have to speculate. I figure that kind of guy would win the decathlon, steal your shirt and your girl -- and you still couldn't help liking him."