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Ipfs, photonic computing and photonic everything (like displays). It might be still kinda far out but it’s a lot closer than people think. Also most languages built on top of llvm.
I think the change will be similar in magnitude to the invention of the internet.
I think we're at a standstill for most PC/mobile/the sort of tech most of us work with. Electric cars and the explosion of renewables are going to change _everything_, faster than people think. Doing a quarter mile in a Model S is fucking AWESOME.
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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.
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…
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.
People are just having sex without thinking twice.
I'm married and in the appropriate age and i have thought about having kids a ton.
I'm not sure if i'm even allowed to create a new thinking human being only for the motivation of having a kid.
The crispr thing takes all our medical advantages just an additional level up.
You see people argue about if you should do a gen test for down syndrome (don't get me wrong here! A human being is a human being. But yes there is a consensus in our society that you become a human after a period of 3 month, at least in germany) and other complications but would never think about denying a doctor to use a incubator for a baby which would never ever be alive today without the medical advances.
There is an unbelievable huge hypocritical thinking in this. Yes tons of human beings would not be alive today without medicine but on the other hand the responsibility coming from all this knowledge doesn't matter?
I believe that in a moral/ethical right way you would need to do your BEST for your kid and this means making sure that by using crispr you do that.
I have no idea where this journey will bring us and yes there is tons of things to figure out but we will be able to overtake natures randomness for future live. And we have to.
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.
Ipfs, photonic computing and photonic everything (like displays). It might be still kinda far out but it’s a lot closer than people think. Also most languages built on top of llvm.
Photonic computing is interesting; last year I attended a python meetup, and two of the presenters were writing Python tooling for designing photonic chips (called IPKISS). Seemed well suited for sensor data processing.
I'm working (like, on the side) on building a fully photonic computer. The progress is very slow, however some things fall into place quite a bit. Most photonic computing designs still use bits, mine would use signals which makes the computer much more powerful.