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by incomingpain 774 days ago
https://www.fastcompany.com/3001329/how-move-past-everything...

Here's an article from 2012 on the subject of "everything seems to be done already"

A few years after this article was published. Google did "AlphaGo" and later "Alphazero" for chess.

OpenAI was founded in 2015.

OpenBCI kickstarter was in 2014. They are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWJem3LY5E

>I'm trying to find good problem statements and gaps to solve, Tech/Non-Tech.

What you're coming up against is starting to be better understood. Some people don't get ideas. Other people, that's all they get.

>It seems like people earlier had it much easier and the ideas seemed a bit obvious. This sounds envious, and could be somewhat wrong. But I truly am still trying to figure out a good gap.

Universities struggle with this a great deal. The people earning their degrees are often extremely underemployed because they cant come up with ideas OR they can't execute on the ideas.

I'm a fail to execute type of person lol. I have tons of ideas.

Fully automated agriculture building that takes water and electricity in and outputs food. Could be built anywhere, thus the extremes of droughty africa or arctic lattitudes.

Cultured meats, just the real deal type of meat, not this cancerous plant fake stuff.

Clean enough water production, less then 1% of the world's water is sort of clean enough.

Wearable tech is on the verge of finding something viable. Samsung/oura rings are kind of there, but what about a necklace?

Someone needs to find a good use for quantum computing.

Lots of room for next gen batteries, grid scale battery storage, or nuclear fusion work.

Plastic alternatives are in major need.

How about medical devices which never pierce into your body? hyposprays? sensors?

remote/wireless power distribution will be huge.

exoskeletons as mobolity scooters?

fully automated road construction that doesnt need employees?

a small drone driver/car with machine ai, that can drive around bike pathes and parks to clean up garbage? No people needed.

the electric airplane industry? That's going to happen in the next couple decades.

unmanned blimps that can move heavy cargo?

Who knows if there's any good ideas there. probably all trash.

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>fully automated road construction that doesnt need employees?

I vaguely remember a solar road concept with tiles with a bunch of electronics in them. I suppose decent computers are cheap enough now. They could have some means of locomotion and drive fly or walk from the factory to their destination.

> unmanned blimps that can move heavy cargo.

nothing wrong with hydrogen. A tow boat with a long sausage behind it with containers hanging under it.

>I vaguely remember a solar road concept with tiles with a bunch of electronics in them. I suppose decent computers are cheap enough now. They could have some means of locomotion and drive fly or walk from the factory to their destination.

Solar freaking roadways! This was almost 10 years ago now. Feel old!

bicycle paths seems a lot easier.

They did build a road in China in 2017 but it's not modular it seems.

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/china-solar-highwa...

if they are good or not depends on your perspective. Say, is good only profitable to you?

> Fully automated agriculture building that takes water and electricity in and outputs food.

i've pondered that one. it seems mostly a self- maintenance apparatus.

> clean enough water production, less then 1% of the world's water is sort of clean enough

what to do with the crap left behind?

> Plastic alternatives are in major need

we have bioplastcs they are just not popular. why i don't know.

> How about medical devices which never pierce into your body? hyposprays? sensors?

There is some cool tech that squeezes your legs to compliment heart beats. It apparently does miracles for health.

Rife technology works but no one wants to hear it. You get some of the most goofy debunking in the cosmos.

> exoskeletons as mobolity scooters?

seems a great idea.

>if they are good or not depends on your perspective. Say, is good only profitable to you?

Ive never even done bake sale. I have better ideas that I could likely make into a business but I have no idea how.

>what to do with the crap left behind?

Sell it? Bill gates open sourced a design for this. Easy enough to put together enough cash to build one. Unfortunately its just not viable.

>we have bioplastcs they are just not popular. why i don't know.

Same problem. I mean not-paper-straws. Like an alternative of plastics that is simply superior.

>There is some cool tech that squeezes your legs to compliment heart beats. It apparently does miracles for health.

I have experienced that for a brief time. No idea how good it was.