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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 goatlover »

kmicklas wrote: post #64
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.

Do you really want to hook your brain directly up to the internet? I'd have serious reservations about that.

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

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Post by goatlover »

adventured wrote: post #41
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.

I'm looking for a CRISPR (or equivalent gene tech) loading system to be implanted, so we can easily install upgrades to our genome as a species. Patches that fix common flaws that dramatically increase disease / shorten life expectancy, along with improvement patches that make us better in various ways. It's not coming anytime soon, but it's inevitable and will be more beneficial than the vaccination programs we've s…

I'm a little bit concerned about the improvement patches. We should get rid of devastating diseases, but we should also be really careful about how we decide to change the species. We'll be deciding that for future generations.

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

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Post by elliotec »

goatlover wrote: post #71
kmicklas wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you really want to hook your brain directly up to the internet? I'd have serious reservations about that.

Some people would do it in a heartbeat.

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

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Post by goatlover »

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.

Problem is that not everyone will want to wear something over their eyes on a regular basis if they don't need to.

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

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Post by nprz »

subhrm wrote: post #23

I am excited about both WebGL & Web assembly. Although both of these have been around for a few years, we are yet to see a general adaptation of these. (might be due to inconsistent browser support). Now with the rise of VR, 3d Printing, powerful GPUs these two technologies are bound to open new avenues of an immersive browsing experience. I imagine that in next few years we would have 1- Webs stores, that show a vir…

I've been interested in learning WebGL but have been hesitant to take the time to learn it because it didn't seem like a skill companies would hire for. Do you think it will become a marketable skill in the future?

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

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Post by gaius »

subhrm wrote: post #23

I am excited about both WebGL & Web assembly. Although both of these have been around for a few years, we are yet to see a general adaptation of these. (might be due to inconsistent browser support). Now with the rise of VR, 3d Printing, powerful GPUs these two technologies are bound to open new avenues of an immersive browsing experience. I imagine that in next few years we would have 1- Webs stores, that show a vir…

We were excited about VRML in the 90s...

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

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Post by lordnacho »

goatlover wrote: post #72
adventured wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm looking for a CRISPR (or equivalent gene tech) loading system to be implanted, so we can easily install upgrades to our genome as a species. Patches that fix common flaws that dramatically increase disease / shorten life expectancy, along with improvement patches that make us better in various ways. It's not coming anytime soon, but it's inevitable and will be more beneficial than the vaccination programs we've s…

I'm a little bit concerned about the improvement patches. We should get rid of devastating diseases, but we should also be really careful about how we decide to change the species. We'll be deciding that for future generations.

> We'll be deciding that for future generations.

Isn't the premise that they can decide for themselves?

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

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Post by goatlover »

Crystal & Julia 1.0. Crystal because it's a blazing fast, compiled and statically typed version of Ruby (or 80% anyway), and it's web server is awesome. Now it just needs full concurrency.

Julia because it offers a nice, performant alternative to Python & R in data science, while avoiding Java & C++. It has some really nice features like multiple dispatch and the ability to run R, Python, Fortran and C code inside of it, so you can use libraries like Numpy in Julia.

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