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by WheelsAtLarge 3575 days ago
How to deal with plastic waste?

How do we deal with waste in general?

Antibiotic resistance, antibiotics are losing their effectiveness.

Information overload, how can we sort the gems from a pile of coal - metaphorically speaking.

100 years from now, no one will be able to read digital data without its original physical format being available. How difficult is it to read a floppy drive now?

Ditto for encrypted data, everyone wants to encrypt their data now but what happens when historians want to understand our current times?

Replacement for petroleum, it's limited yet it's used all over the place in society.

There's so many more but that's enough for now.