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Futuristic Startup Ideas
- ctdonath 14y agoFigure out where the puck is going. Head there. Trite, yes, but exactly what I've seen many big winners do. I first noticed it with iD Software, where Carmack wrote his awesome games for where the hardware was going to be when he finished it. Google was so pretentious with that name, AFAIK implying it was going to operate on a vast scale of knowing everything to, well, 10^100 things...and now it searches the Internet as you type the query right down to ground-level imagery. Plot the rate of network bandwidth, and the prediction that you'd get multi-T1 data rates wireless in your pocket was hysterically absurd. Ditto image resolution and data storage. I once wondered what kind of user interface could be achieved if one threw an entire supercomputer at a GUI...and now we know. Plot where the curves are going. See what the numbers predict for 10 years down the road. They will look hysterically absurd - believe them, develop for them. Converge that with following the much-trodden path to its end...then keep going. Oh, and that old prediction that every home would have a dozen or more TVs? That was ridiculous. That happened too. Took a little longer than expected, but I've got (in essence) 5 on my desk alone.