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To accomplish this, it helps to keep a list of important problems that haven't been solved yet. As you hear about incremental improvements, it may suddenly be w
by jakevoytko 16y ago
To accomplish this, it helps to keep a list of important problems that haven't been solved yet. As you hear about incremental improvements, it may suddenly be within reach, when popular knowledge says otherwise. Online video was obviously going to be a killer app: one Victoria's Secret Live fashion show brought the Internet to its knees several years before Youtube existed. There just wasn't a way to do it well before the cards fell into place: Flash video cut through the Gordian Knot of browser video plugins, and low-cost server infrastructures finally became cheap enough to store petabytes of video. The casual observer may miss the events, and many may jump in too early, but it helps to know what problems need to be solved.
- freakwit 16y agoWhat sort of problems are people thinking of? SSDs have been a big speed improvement - have they enabled new developments?
- jfarmer 16y agoRethinkDB thinks so.
- jakevoytko 16y agoIn mobile robotics you can record data on the move without worrying about damaging the disk or enduring sudden massive write latencies. So you get more interesting datasets using SSDs than you could with traditional disks.
- waleedka 16y agoGood point. Maybe jasonlbaptiste's next article would be a list BIG problems still waiting for good solutions. Here are a few I can think of: - Email 2.0 (Wave was a good experiment but we need more) - Online Dating (still broken) - Online job search (could be improved a lot) - Search 2.0: A Knowledge Engine that understands the question and finds you the answer.