Re:Ask HN: What is the next hype train after blockchains and...
by pizza on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:07PM
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- Cheap small scale electronics: imagine raspberry pi-like devices with a sticker form factor, and very cheap, energy efficient enough to be powered by the sun. Can't think of a useful use-case, but kinda cool to shrink things like that
- Differential privacy
- Quantum computing
- Programs that can replace programmers
- ML for biotech
- Automated fabrication
From a more social perspective, in order of least to most abstract:
- Software that helps improve public infrastructure, logistics somehow - eg identifying ways to minimize small amounts of energy waste on a wide scale
- Tools that help local municipalities and citizens cooperate together
- Tools that give the disenfranchised a greater voice
- Differential privacy
- Quantum computing
- Programs that can replace programmers
- ML for biotech
- Automated fabrication
From a more social perspective, in order of least to most abstract:
- Software that helps improve public infrastructure, logistics somehow - eg identifying ways to minimize small amounts of energy waste on a wide scale
- Tools that help local municipalities and citizens cooperate together
- Tools that give the disenfranchised a greater voice