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I hope the next thing is a renewed focus on the physical world. For the most part, humanity took a break from innovating significantly on transportation, housi

I hope the next thing is a renewed focus on the physical world. For the most part, humanity took a break from innovating significantly on transportation, housing, cities, biotech. Our ability to model and simulate the real world has improved exponentially, I'm optimistic about what can come from that. Lots of great minds have been focused purely on software but perhaps the shift back to hardware / physical things is starting.

AlotOfReading 6y ago
Some are earlier than others (biotech is already a hot investment market, for instance), but I think we've been there for awhile. Just look at all the self-driving firms, car manufacturers, airbnb/housing startups, and agtech around the Bay.
Karrot_Kream 6y ago
Indeed. For all the AI hype, scientific computing has made huge strides forward. Improvements in graphics cards and parallel algorithms have made large simulations and models of all sorts, not just deep learning, much more computationally feasible. I'm very excited to see the applications of all this new scientific computing.
RestlessMind 6y ago
> humanity took a break from innovating significantly A lot of advances in SV in the last decade, many of which were derided until recently, have helped us survive the pandemic - video communication (Zoom/Skype/Meet), entertainment (Netflix/HBOMax/Prime), grocery and food delivery (Instacart/PrimeNow/DoorDash/GrubHub), online shopping, Cloud and remote work tools (Office365/AWS/G-Suite and tons of Cloud/SaaS startups) etc. I am thankful for that innovation!
- burnthrow 6y ago
  On the other hand, these are the tools and spectacles that make such "lock-downs" for a minimally lethal virus politically possible. We are our own jailers and it makes me sick.
ianai 6y ago
Hope people realize the connection of power utilization to gdp growth. And that uranium and nuclear in general offer truly astronomical potentials - and the fuel is universal on earths surface.

AlotOfReading 6y ago

Some are earlier than others (biotech is already a hot investment market, for instance), but I think we've been there for awhile. Just look at all the self-driving firms, car manufacturers, airbnb/housing startups, and agtech around the Bay.

Karrot_Kream 6y ago

Indeed. For all the AI hype, scientific computing has made huge strides forward. Improvements in graphics cards and parallel algorithms have made large simulations and models of all sorts, not just deep learning, much more computationally feasible. I'm very excited to see the applications of all this new scientific computing.

RestlessMind 6y ago

> humanity took a break from innovating significantly A lot of advances in SV in the last decade, many of which were derided until recently, have helped us survive the pandemic - video communication (Zoom/Skype/Meet), entertainment (Netflix/HBOMax/Prime), grocery and food delivery (Instacart/PrimeNow/DoorDash/GrubHub), online shopping, Cloud and remote work tools (Office365/AWS/G-Suite and tons of Cloud/SaaS startups) etc. I am thankful for that innovation!

burnthrow 6y ago
On the other hand, these are the tools and spectacles that make such "lock-downs" for a minimally lethal virus politically possible. We are our own jailers and it makes me sick.

ianai 6y ago

Hope people realize the connection of power utilization to gdp growth. And that uranium and nuclear in general offer truly astronomical potentials - and the fuel is universal on earths surface.