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I don't know about the next big innovations that will be widely adopted, but I think I know that if the following innovations happen, they will probably be wide
by Jugurtha 8y ago
I don't know about the next big innovations that will be widely adopted, but I think I know that if the following innovations happen, they will probably be widely adopted...
- Applications that aren't slow: "In a world where an app opens right when you click on it".
- Fast websites: type in the url, hit enter, and you're in. You click on a link, and voilà..
- Split second boots.
- Chrome not killing my computer when opening too many tabs (I used to open 120+ I think with Firefox).
- Make sbt not download the whole internet (yes, cache and all).
- Printers that actually print when I want to. Also make printing in black not require other colors.
- Automatic transmission cars that don't do a jerk motion when they stop.
- Universal cartridge format.
- Time tracking app that magically monitors what you do during the day without your intervention and can show you a treemap. Over the years, you can learn something.
- A huge dataset on every company and human that was ever formed and its life through success or failure. Maybe we can learn from that.
- A way to encode and distill the whole human knowledge. A graph of "knowledge" of sorts.
- Peer review that works.
- Time management, cognition, meta-cognition, deliberate practice, empathy, cognitive biases, and how memory works lessons in primary school.
- Voice calls on (Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Messenger) that sound like a phone call.
- A way to simulate your life with varying parameters and find a path to a desirable outcome.
- Natural computation: A billion objects falling don't require nature to spin up more VMs to handle all their trajectories and write a Medium post about how it did it. Physics seems to handle great loads, concurrent events, several processes mutating the same object simultaneously, out of the box. A computer that does that.
- framebit 8y agoOn the topic of SBT: https://www.lihaoyi.com/mill/ https://www.lihaoyi.com/mill/, a response to http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html