Same thing as when I was a teenager in the 80's: clean energy. Solar cells are now mainstream and maybe I'll live to see some advance with fusion reactors.
Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?
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Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?
#52Note: Below are just my opinions. I don't think downvoting is justified. I'm completely right and downvoters are wrong, but anyway this thread asks for what we think. ---------- My opinion: (100.000000% guaranteed to be right in this case.) It's obvious that general artificial intelligence will be a reality and surpass human cognition in every way, because our brains are a couple of pounds of meat running on less tha…
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Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?
#53Self driving cars. The amount of time saved for humanity will be absolutely staggering and free up people to spend more time accomplishing more things.
Combined with cars that reside in remote places to pick you up on demand. Then our cities will have more spaces that is currently occupied by parking.
Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?
#543d printed houses and vertical farms. If these technologies get cheap enough, they will cover two of people's basic needs.
According to State Farm, completely rebuilding my apartment is would be 1/7th of what I paid for it, and that's with NYC union labor.
There's a reason that crackhouses in Vancouver cost $1 million, and it's not because they're made of gold. You need to build density to reduce the share of land cost per dwelling, anything else is a gimmick.
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#55Unpopular opinion around here, but Bitcoin. The idea that we have technology now which can help address global wealth inequality just makes me happy.
Genuinely curious... how can Bitcoin help address global wealth inequality?
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Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?
#57Note: Below are just my opinions. I don't think downvoting is justified. I'm completely right and downvoters are wrong, but anyway this thread asks for what we think. ---------- My opinion: (100.000000% guaranteed to be right in this case.) It's obvious that general artificial intelligence will be a reality and surpass human cognition in every way, because our brains are a couple of pounds of meat running on less tha…
You're missing another alternative: what if AI is totally possible, but our sacks of meat in skulls are not able to achieve it?
I don't have to disbelieve the possibility of the existence of humans to doubt that flies could create a human.
Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?
#58Unpopular opinion around here, but Bitcoin. The idea that we have technology now which can help address global wealth inequality just makes me happy.
Isn't Bitcoin the most unequal distribution of wealth we know about? Every analysis I've seen says that Bitcoin makes Russia look downright egalitarian.
Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?
#59That future tech that everyone knows is coming, that other future tech that everyone knows is coming, that obscure tech that I have a vested interest in that no one has heard of.
Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?
#60Self driving cars. The amount of time saved for humanity will be absolutely staggering and free up people to spend more time accomplishing more things.
More like all those out of work truckers will just be sitting at home watching TV ;)